4276 ARTICLE 18.

1918, oh. 192, sec. 249B.

404A. The Commissioners of Sudlersville shall have full power to>
regulate the laying, erecting, installation and use of water pipes and mains,
pumping stations and reservoirs of water within the limits of the town,
of Sudlersville; and no firm, corporation, individual or group of individ-
uals shall use any street, lane, alley or thoroughfare or public land of said
town for any water pipes, mains, or reservoirs without the consent of the
Commissioners of Sudlersville first had and obtained by ordinance for
that purpose passed and approved, and any water mains or pipes, pump-
ing stations and reservoirs hereafter placed upon, in or under any of the
streets, lanes, alleys, thoroughfares or public land of said town without the
consent of the Commissioners of Sudlersville shall be deemed a nuisance.*

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 18, sec. 250. 1870, ch. 313. 1918, ch. 258.

405. On or before the first day of July, nineteen hundred and eighteen,
and on or before the first day of July of each third year thereafter, the
Commissioners of Sudlersville shall appoint three assessors, residents and
taxpayers of said town, who shall, under the direction of said Commission-
ers, make an assessment of all property real and personal, in said town,
now subject to taxation by the County Commissioners of Queen Anne's-
County, but with this exception, however, that no amount of furniture-
shall be exempt from taxation. Said assessors, before proceeding to act,
shall take an oath before any officer of the State of Maryland duly au-
thorized to take acknowledgments, to faithfully, honestly and impartially
perform their duties as said assessors, and the fact of their taking said
oaths shall be certified to the Commissioners of Sudlersville by the officer
before whom same shall be made.

Said assessors shall assess each parcel of land separately with the im-
provements thereon in the name of actual owner at the full value as nearly
as they shall be able to determine, and shall assess all personal property
in the name of the actual owner at its fall value. Said assessments shall
be completed before the first day of September, and as soon as said assess-
ment shall be completed the assessors shall return the same to the Com-
missioners of Sudlersville in a form of showing the name of the party
assessed, the property with which he is assessed, and the amount of the
assessment of each piece of property.

The Commissioners shall thereupon notify the owners of the property
assessed, in case such owners are known, of the amounts assessed against
them, by placing notices in the United States mail, with sufficient postage
prepaid, addressed to them at their last known Post Office address; in
case the address of any owner shall be unknown, such notices shall be
posted on the front of the Municipal Building in the town. The giving of
the notices in the manner above set forth is hereby declared to be sufficient,
legal notice of said assessment.

*Sec. 2, ch. 192, 1918, repealed all laws inconsistent therewith.