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appeal by such owner to the Circuit Court for Baltimore County j with
the right to a jury trial on issue of fact involved in such taking; and said
Commissioners shall also have full power and authority likewise to pro-
vide for ascertaining what amount of actual benefit will accrue to the
owner or possessors of any ground or improvements within said county
by reason of the construction or enlargement of such sewerage system or
systems, and to provide for assessing and levying the cost of such work
in whole or in part upon the owners of property so benefited to the extent
of such benefit, and for collecting the same, such assessment to be made
only after notice, with an opportunity to be heard and the right of appeal
as aforesaid, and when so made, to be a lien upon the property of the
person so assessed until paid, and to be recoverable as county taxes are.

1912, ch. 157, sec. 132N. B. Co. C. (1916), sec. 275. 1928, sec. 321.

321. Said Commissioners shall have full power and authority to pro-
vide by regulation, subject to approval by the State Board of Health as
aforesaid, for the maintenance of such sewerage or drainage system or
systems when so constructed, the cost of such maintenance to be met in
whole or in part by a special tax on the owners of property benefited
thereby, or otherwise, as said Commissioners may deem just and proper
under the circumstances, and in such regulations may prescribe the terms
upon which and the manner in which private connections with said sys-
tem may be made or maintained, and may prescribe penalties and provide
for the enforcement of the same in cases where such connections are made
without authority or where persons obstruct or injure such sewers, or use
the same in a manner contrary to such regulations, all charges for private
connections and all sums collected as penalties as aforesaid to be applied
to the maintenance of such sewers or drains. Said Commissioners may
also, when they deem it properly so to do, provide for the construction or
maintenance of such sewerage systems in part out of the county's funds,
and may levy for the amount so to be expended as levies are made for
money to be expended for other public purposes.

1912, ch. 157, sec. 132-O. B. Co. C. (1916), sec. 276. 192S, sec. 322.

322. Said Commissioners may, by their regulations aforesaid, pre-
scribe the manner in which applications may be made by residents of
said county for the construction of sewerage systems for their respective
communities and the procedure upon such applications.

1912, ch. 157, sec. 132P. B. Co. C. (1916), sec. 277. 1928, sec. 323.

323. Said Commissioners, with the approval or upon the recommenda-
tion of the State Board of Health, may at any time require any owner
of property in Baltimore County to connect his said premises with any
public sewerage system reasonably near the same, established under the
provisions of this Act, and may, by their regulations aforesaid, prescribe
penalties for failure to make such connections.