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coextensive with the period of maturity of the bonds out of the proceeds
of which such construction was done; provided, however, that any owner
of property may, at his option, within one year from the time said front-
foot assessment or benefit charge is levied, extinguish the same by the pay-
ment in cash, in one sum, of the proportion of the estimated cost of the
project of which the construction or acquisition abutting on his property
is a part, represented by the number of front feet with which he is as-
sessed, with interest at the rate of six per cent, per annum from the date
of said levy, less any annual payment that may have been paid thereon.
The Commission shall at any time permit a connection with a water main
or sewer by a property owner whose property does not abut on said water
main or sewer and who has not previous thereto paid a benefit for the
construction of said water main or sewer, provided that said Commission
shall first determine the classification of said property and a front-foot
charge to be paid by said property owner as though his property abutted
on said water main or sewer, and in the event of such connection being
made said property owner and said property, as to all charges, rates and
benefits, shall in every respect stand in the same position as if the said
property abutted upon a water main or sewer. The annual benefit charges
as above specified shall be a first lien upon the property against which
they are assessed, subject only to prior State, county and municipal charges,
and shall be enforced by a judgment upon complaint of the Mayor and
Council of Salisbury before any Justice of the Peace or the Circuit Court
for Wicomico County, and usual execution thereon. No such annual bene-
fit charge shall continue as a lien for a period longer than two years from
the date from which the same became in default unless it is reduced to
a judgment and duly recorded among the records of the Office of the Clerk
of the Circuit Court for said Wicomico County. The said benefit charge
shall be payable at the office of the Commission immediately upon being
levied and shall be in default after sixty days from that date; and said
levy and any judgment obtained as a result of the default of the payment
thereof, shall bear interest at the rate of one per cent, a month from and
after the time said levy is in default.

1924, ch. 494, sec. 14.

334. For the purpose of retiring the bonds authorized to be issued by
this Act and the payment of the interest thereon, there shall be levied
against all the assessable property within the City of Salisbury by the
Mayor and Council of Salisbury, annually, as long as any of said bonds
are outstanding and not paid, a tax sufficient to meet the interest on said
bonds as it becomes due, and to pay the principal thereof as they mature,
said tax to be determined, levied, collected and paid over in the following
manner: At least thirty days before the tax levying period of each year
the said Commission shall determine the amount necessary to be raised
for the ensuing year for the payment of interest and proportionate part
of principal of all outstanding bonds, the amount to be paid on the prin-
cipal of said bonds in any one year to be determined by the usual table