848 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [Ch. 573]

take concerning the name of an owner shall be held to invalidate
any assessment, and it shall be sufficient if the name of the last
owner as shown by the record in the office of the Recorder of
Deeds of Caroline County is shown upon such, assessment list.

SEC. 47. All assessments, so made, shall be due upon the
date of the certifying by the Commissioners of Ridgely to their
secretary for collecting, and if paid in full within thirty (30)
days after the date of such certifying, a discount equal to five
per centum (5%) of the full amount of said assessment shall be
allowed by said commissioners. Upon all payments made after
thirty (30) days after the date of the certifying, as aforesaid',
interest, at the rate of six per centum (6%) per annum, com-
puted from the date of certifying, as aforesaid, shall be added
to the assessment. Any property owner may, at his election to
be expressed in writing to the Commissioners of Ridgely within
thirty (30) days after the certifying of the assessments as afore-
said, pay the said assessments in five (5) equal instalments,
together with interest, as above stated, payable annually; the
first instalment to be due and payable within thirty (30) days
from the date of the certifying, as aforesaid, and each subse-
quent instalment, with accrued interest, to be due, and payable
on or before the first (1st) day of October of each year there-
after. Any property owner may have the right at any instal-
ment period to pay the balance due on his assessment in full.
All assessments shall be due and payable to the secretary of the
Commissioners of Ridgely.

SEC. 48. In all cases where the property owner does not
elect to pay in instalments, or, having elected to pay in instal-
ments, fails to pay the first instalment in thirty (30) days from
the date of certifying, as aforesaid, he shall be held to have
waived the right to pay in instalments, and the entire assess-
ment, together with accrued interest from the date of the cer-
tifying, as aforesaid, shall immediately thereafter become due
and payable. If the property owner who has not elected to pay
in instalments, fails to pay his full assessment, less discount
allowable under this act, within thirty (30) days after the date
of the certifying of such assessment, as aforesaid, or, having
elected to pay in instalments, fails to pay the first instalment
within thirty (30) days after the date of the certifying, as
aforesaid, or makes default in the payment of any annual instal-
ment, or the accrued interest thereof, the whole of such assess-
ment shall immediately become due and payable, and in any
such case it shall be the duty of, and the Commissioners of
Ridgely are here directed to proceed forthwith to collect all such
assessments and accrued interest in the manner now provided