3680 ARTICLE 16.

as hereinafter provided for as due for the year 1927, only that amount
of the 'year 1927 which has not been paid or collected, except that said
Commission shall collect, under the provisions of the law existing prior
to the passage of this Act, all front foot benefit charges due and payable
January 1st, 1927, in the Chevy Chase and Seat Pleasant Districts.

1927, ch. 506, sec. 8A.

998. The Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission shall cause to
be stamped upon the Treasurer's books of the respective counties, annu-
ally, opposite the properties or owners listed therein which are subject to
a front foot benefit charge heretofore or hereafter to be levied, the annual
front foot benefit charge levied against, said properties, noting in said book
the total front foot benefit charge. For the purpose of making such entries
the said Commission shall have free access to the said books for thirty
days, or so much thereof as may be necessary, prior to the time when the
actual collection of taxes begins in the respective counties. All protests,
objections or complaints concerning said front foot benefit charge shall by
the respective Treasurers be referred to said Commission, and it shall not
be within the power of said Treasurers to remit, change or amend said
charges. Any properties against which the Commission has levied a front
foot benefit charge not assessed for State or County taxes shall be added
to the Treasurer's books by said Commission, and said Treasurer shall
collect the same as herein directed

The Treasurers respectively of Prince George's and Montgomery Coun-
ties or other tax collecting authorities shall cause to be printed upon their
tax bills the following:

"To Sanitary Commission front foot benefit charge $.............."

and provide a space for the interest or penalty, and shall make the proper
and necessary entries on all bills sent out, and shall collect the amounts
noted thereon with the State and County taxes.

Said front foot benefit charges from and after January 1st, 1927, shall
for all purposes of collection be treated as County taxes, shall bear the
same interest, the same penalties and advertise in the same manner as and
with county taxes, and all property subject to said front foot benefit charges
shall be sold for the same at the same time and in the same manner as said
properties are sold for County taxes, and all of the law relating to the col-
lection of County taxes so far as the same is applicable shall relate to the
collection of the front foot benefit charge. No property redeemed from a
county tax sale, and no property sold by the County Commissioners after a
final tax sale shall be redeemed or sold except upon the payment of the
front foot benefit charges due thereon.

The respective Treasurers shall pay to the said Commission monthly,
on the tenth day of every month, the amount of the front foot benefit
charge collected by either of them to and inclusive of the last day of the
preceding month, and upon the failure of either of said Treasurers to pay
over said sum as above directed, the amount in their hands due said Com-