5120 ARTICLE 23.

authorized and directed to review upon application by said Commission
the cost of making such extensions, and the findings of the Public Service
Commission shall be final, except that there may be an appeal to the
courts from such findings, as is provided by law in the case of other deter-
minations by the Public Service Commission. The Commission is hereby
empowered, authorized and directed to raise funds, as herein provided,
for the expenditures authorized and directed by this section.

1924, ch. 494, sec. 13.

333. Said Commission, for the purpose of assessing benefits for the
water supply and sewerage systems which may be acquired or constructed
under this Act, shall divide all property binding upon a street, lane, alley
or right of way in which the water pipe or sanitary sewer is to be laid into
classes. Immediately upon the purchase or condemnation or construction
of the water supply or sewerage system, the Commission is empowered to
fix and levy a benefit charge upon all property abutting upon the water
mains or sewers in accordance with the classification, and shall, in writing,
notify all owners of said property into which class their respective prop-
erties fall and the charge determined upon, naming also in said notice a
time and place when and at which said owner will be heard. Such notice
may be mailed to the last known address of the owner or, in the case of
vacant or unimproved property, posted upon the premises. The classifica-
tion of and benefit assessed against any property as made by the Com-
mission shall be subject to revision at said hearing, and any party feeling
aggrieved by the determination of said Commission may within ten days
from the date thereof take an appeal therefrom to the Circuit Court for
Wicomico County. The Commission may change the classification of
property from time to time, as said properties change in the uses to which
they are put. Said benefits shall be levied for water supply and sewerage
purchase or condemnation or construction upon the number of front feet
abutting upon the street, lane, alley or right of way in which a water
main or sewer is placed; provided, however, that no lot shall be assessed
on more than one side, that corner lots shall be assessed on that frontage
towards which the building does or would naturally face, and that all lots
shall be assessed for their full frontage, even though a water main or
sewer may not extend along the full length of any boundary; and pro-
vided further, that in the case of irregular shaped lots and shallow lots
fronting upon more than one street, the Commission may determine upon
for assessment and may assess such length of frontage as they may deem
reasonable and fair. Front-foot benefit charges for water supply and
sewerage purchase or condemnation or construction shall be uniform for
each class of property throughout the city. The amount of the charge per
front foot for each class of property for water mains and sewers shall be
determined from time to time by the Commission, as costs and conditions
require. Said benefit charges shall be paid annually, beginning in the
year in which the purchase or condemnation or construction is made or
begun, by all properties located as above specified, for a period of years