1850 ARTICLE 7.

under such plan of extinguishment shall be preserved intact by said
Mayor and Council, less the payment of the proportion of interest and
sinking fund properly chargeable to the amount so received, and used for
future construction; and provided further, that any property owner, whose
property is classified under business or industrial, or subdivision, may, at
his option, ait any time during the life of said assessment extinguish the
same by payment in cash of an amount, which, if put at interest at 3 1/2
per cent., compounded annually, would yield an annuity equal to the
annual assessment for the period for which said assessment has yet to run.
The Mayor and Council shall at any time permit a connection with a
water main or sewer by a property owner whose property does not abut
on said water main or sewer and who has not previously thereto paid an
assessment for the construction of said water main or sewer, provided the
said Mayor and Council shall first determine the classification of said
property, and a front foot charge to be paid by said property owner, as
though his property abutted on said water main or sewer; and in the
event of such connection being made, said property owner and said prop
erty, as to all charges, rates and assessments, shall in every respect stand
in the same position as if the said property abutted upon a water main
or sewer. The annual assessments as above specified shall be a first lien
upon the property against which they are assessed, subject only to prior
State, county and municipal charges, and shall be enforced by ai judgment
upon complaint of the authorities of Sykesville before any justice of the
peace or the Circuit Court of Carroll County, a.nd usual execution thereon.
No such annual assessment shall continue as a lien for a period longer
than two years from the date from which the same became in default,
unless it is reduced to a judgment and duly recorded among the records
at the office of the clerk of Carroll County. Said assessments shaill be
payable at the office of the Mayor and Council immediately upon being
levied, and shall be in default after 60 days from the date; and said levy,
and any judgment obtained as a result of the default after 60 days from
that date; and said levy, and any judgment obtained as a result of the
default of the payment thereof, shall bear interest at the rate of 1 per
cent, a month from and after the time said levy is in default.

1922, ch. 469, sec. 7.

391. Said Mayor and Council shall provide for each and every prop-
erty abutting upon a street or right-of-way in which, under this Act, a
water main or sewer is laid, a water connection or sewer connection which
shall be extended as required, from the water main or sewer to the prop-
erty line of the abutting lot, said connection to be constructed by, and at
the sole expense of the Mayor and Council. When any water main or
sewer is declared by the Mayor and Council complete and ready for the
delivery of water or the reception of sewage, every abutting property
owner, after due notice, shall make connection of all spigots or hydrants,
toilets, sink drains, wash trays, etc., with said water main or sewer within
the time prescribed by the Mayor and Council. Where the aforesaid fix-