1696 ARTICLE 6.

missioners, shall be by them certified to their secretary for collection, and
from the date of such certification, which shall be entered both upon the
list and in the minute book of said Commissioners, the several amounts
shown upon such list as assessed against the properties shall be a lien
upon the property upon which the assessment is made, and such lien shall
have priority of any lien, incumbrance or conveyance, except taxes or
prior liens for public improvements. No error or mistake 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.

1912, ch 578, sec. 47.

521. All assessments, so made, shall be due upon the date of the cer-
tifying by the Commissioners of Ridgely to their secretary for collecting,
and if paid in full within thirty (30) days after the date of such certify-
ing, 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, computed 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 Com-
missioners of Ridgely within thirty (30) days after the certifying of the
assessments as aforesaid, pay the said assessments in five (5) equal instal-
ments, 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 subsequent instalment, with ac-
crued interest, to be due, and payable on or before the first (1st) day of
October of each year thereafter. Any property owner may have the right
at any instalment period to pay the balance due on his assessment in full.
All assessments shall be due and payable to the secretary of the Commis-
sioners of Ridgely.

1912, ch. 578, sec. 48.

522. In all cases where the property owner does not elect to pay in
instalments, or, having elected to pay in instalments, 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 assessment, together with accrued interest from the date of the
certifying, as aforesaid, shall immediately thereafter become due and pay-
able. 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 instalment, or
the accrued interest thereof, the whole of such assessment shall immedi-
ately become due and payable, and in any such case it shall be the duty of,