32 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 12

All sums received under such plan of extinguishment shall
be preserved intact by the Treasurer of Baltimore County,
less the payment of the proportion of interest and sinking
fund properly chargeable to the amount so received, and used
for further construction. The said assessments and charges
shall be and constitute a lien upon the property chargeable
with the same until paid. Said lien, whether as to assess-
ments and charges heretofore accrued or hereafter accruing,
shall be and is hereby declared always to have been superior
to any and all other liens against the property chargeable
therewith, whether such other liens were created prior to or
after the passage of Chapter 539 of the, Acts of 1924, known
as the Metropolitan District Act. Nothing herein contained
shall in any manner be construed as affecting the lien of any
other public taxes, charges or assessments for State and/or
County purposes of any kind or nature whatsoever levied or
charged against any property. The lien herein provided for
shall have and is hereby declared always to have had priority
of payment from the proceeds of the sale of any property
chargeable therewith, subject only to the preferences of taxes
provided by Section 150 of Article 81 of the Annotated Code
of Maryland (1939 Edition). All such assessments and
charges, including those past due and in arrears as well as
those due and becoming due in the future, excepting water
service charges, which shall be collected as heretofore speci-
fied in Section 332 shall be due, if payable annually, on the
first day of January in each and every year and shall be
collected by the Treasurer of Baltimore County in the same
manner and at the same time as State and County taxes are
collected. In addition to, but not in substitution of the afore-
said remedies, whenever the Commissioners may deem it
necessary and advisable, they are empowered by written order
to authorize and direct the Treasurer of Baltimore County
to proceed in his own name as such treasurer to enforce the
lien of Metropolitan District assessments and charges on any
particular property specified in such order, by a bill in equity
or to collect said assessments and charges by an action of
assumpsit or by both a bill in equity and a suit at law as
aforesaid. In the event any such annual assessment or charge
be not paid when due, interest thereon, beginning on the first
day of the following June, shall be added at the rate of one-half
of 1% per month until paid. The fiscal year of the Metropolitan
District shall correspond with the calendar year and on or
prior to the first day of January in each and every year, said
Commissioners shall deliver to the Treasurer of Baltimore
County a statement showing the Metropolitan District assess-
ments and charges due and payable, including such as may
be in arrears, identifying, with respect to each of said assess-
ments and charges, the properties on which the same are
liens. Such statement shall be made by appropriate notation