846 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [Ch. 578]

and collect a special tax of not exceeding fifteen (15) cents on
every hundred dollars of taxable property within the corporate
limits of the Town of Ridgely. The proceeds of such tax
shall be collected by the commissioners, and forthwith applied
by them to the payment of interest upon and redemption of
said bonds as it and they shall become payable and redeemable,
and the said taxes are hereby inviolably dedicated to the
payment of said interest and principal of said bond issue. Said
tax to be levied and collected as other taxes are now by law
levied and collected for said town.

SEC. 43. In addition to the funds raised as specified in
the foregoing section, the Commissioners of Ridgely are hereby
authorized, empowered and directed to raise additional funds
for the purpose of paying the interest and principal of the
bonds issued under this act in the following described manner,
to wit: The Commissioners of Ridgely, from the approximate
estimate of the whole cost of constructing any sewer or system of
sewers, in accordance with any plan now, or that may hereafter
from time to time be adopted, shall apportion the said cost
to each lineal foot of sewer to be built in accordance with
aforesaid system, said cost to be apportioned alike upon each
size of sewer, be it lateral or trunk sewer. The said cost,
thus determined, shall be paid by the property abutting upon
the streets, highways, lanes or alleys in which said sewers are
constructed, at the time of completing each sewer, and the
aforesaid property shall be assessed for said costs per lineal
foot as follows, to wit:

SEC. 44. All assessments shall be made upon the property
abutting upon that portion of any street, highway, lane or
alley in which any public sewer may be constructed under this
provision at the rate of seventy cents (70c) for each front foot
of such property abutting upon such street, highway, lane or
alley; provided, however, that where any property is situated
at the corner of two such streets, highways, lanes or alleys, or
otherwise so situated as to be assessed for the expense of
building a sewer on one of such streets, highways, lanes or
alleys, only the front (as determined by the Commissioners
of Ridgely) of such property shall be liable for such assess-
ment, and the whole assessment shall be made upon the com-
pletion of any portion of a sewer, either in front or on the
side of such property so as to make the said property assessable
to said sewer; and provided further that no property, or por-
tion of property, shall be assessed for the construction of any
sewer, unless such property, or some portion thereof, shall
abut and be bounded upon the street, highway, lane or alley,