DOECHESTER COUNTY. 2265

purpose of maintaining said waterworks and paying the interest and prin-
cipal of said bonds.*

1927, ch. 110.

251. The Commissioners of East New Market, in addition to the
power and authority heretofore vested in it by the General Assembly of
Maryland, is hereby further authorized and empowered for the purpose
of maintaining its water works, to assess rates for the supply and use of
water therefrom, to any point, place or property within the corporate
limits of East New Market, in Dorchester County, Maryland, and to
assess against and upon any real estate, as other municipal taxes, to which
said water is supplied, such rates or charges as taxes, and such taxes, so
assessed, shall be part and parcel of all the other municipal taxes levied
and assessed upon any such real estate, and shall be due and payable and
collectible as all other municipal taxes are due, payable and collectible,
and when overdue and in arrear, to draw interest as other municipal taxes
draw interest when overdue and unpaid, with power and authority to the
official who collects other municipal taxes to collect said water taxes by
any and all the processes by which other municipal taxes may be collected,
the said official to have the power and authority to sell the real estate upon
which said water taxes are levied and assessed, or to sue and recover said
water taxes by suit before a justice of the peace, if the amount of the
same shall be within the jurisdiction of a justice of the peace, or in the
Circuit Court for Dorchester County, if the amount to be collected, is
within the jurisdiction of the said court, by suit, and provided that if the
said taxes or water rates are fixed by the year, but payable in fractional
parts thereof, or in different parts of the year, then any fractional part
of the annual rate shall be due and collectible at such time of the year that
such fractional part of the annual rate or amount shall be declared to
be due by the Commissioners of East New Market, and if any such frac-
tional part is due and in arrear the same may be collected by the afore-
said processes for collection, hereinbefore set forth, and the said Commis-
sioners of East New Market have the power and authority to fix water
rates or amounts to be charged for the use of the said water, and to fix
said rates at so much per year, or an amount for a year, but they may
fix said annual amount to be due and payable, in installments or by the
quarter of the year or any other fractional part of the year, and the owners
of all real estate within the said corporate limits shall have notice of the
assessment against their property of said water rates, as is required as
to notice as to other municipal taxes, but the Commissioners of East New
Market, may in addition to, or substitution for the notice heretofore fixed
by law to be given to property owners as to other municipal taxes, may
provide other and different reasonable notice to the owners of such real
estate as to the said water rates or taxes, as to when they are levied and
the amount thereof and when they are due and payable, and the said

*Ch. 78, 1916, authorized a further bond issue of $5,000 for extending water
works.