MONTGOMERY COUNTY. 3515

Assessments so levied as aforesaid shall be a lien upon the property against
which they are charged superior to all other liens from the date of the
notice of such assessment to be served upon such lot owners personally,
if said lot owner be a resident of the District, and if said lot owner be a
non-resident of said District, to be served by publication and posting as
hereinbefore provided.

In all cases where service is required by the provisions of this Act upon
any resident of the District, such service shall be made by any police officer
of Montgomery County whose return in writing reciting the fact of such
service and the time and manner thereof shall be prima facie evidence
of the fact of such service. The cost of publication of any notice required
by this section shall be assessed against the owner of the property charged
with such special assessment and become a lien upon such property and
be collected with said assessment as hereinafter provided.

In the event that provision shall be made for the payment of the assess-
ments aforesaid in installments, upon a failure to pay any one or more
of said installments when the same shall become due the whole amount
thereof and of such assessment shall immediately become due and pay-
able. All assessments levied hereunder whenever the same shall become
overdue according to the terms of the ordinance providing therefor, or by
reason of the non-payment of any installment thereof, may be collected
in the manner in which general taxes due said County are now or may
hereafter be collected under the provisions of the general and local laws
of the State of Maryland and any sale made for the non-payment of such
assessment and any deed made pursuant to such sale shall be entitled to
all the presumptions as to validity that now or may hereafter attach to
sales and deeds made for default in payment of general taxes due said
county; and when any real property assessed as herein provided for shall
become liable to sale for any other assessment of tax whatsoever, then the
assessment levied under this section shall become immediately due and
payable and the property against which they are levied may be sold there-
for together with accrued interest thereon and costs to day of sale. If any
sale made hereunder shall be set aside for failure to comply with the terms
hereof, that fact shall not bar the right of said Board to collect said assess-
ment and enforce the lien thereof by equitable suit as aforesaid.

In all cases where the property to be assessed for improvements under
the provisions of this Section is located at the intersection of two streets
and is what is known as a corner lot, the Board shall have the power only
to make an assessment for the number of feet in the frontage of such lot
and in case the improvements are extended along the side of said prop-
erty, the Board shall only have the power to make assessment for such
improvements in excess of one hundred feet in addition to the assessment
made for such improvements along the streets on which the said property
fronts. In all cases in which the question shall arise as to the street upon
which said property may front the decision of the Board in regard thereto
shall be final and conclusive.