1320 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 539

155E For the payment of all or part of the interest
on and all or part of the principal of the bonds as they
mature and not provided for in the receipts as collected
under the provisions of Section 155D, the authorities may
levy a front foot assesment on all property abutting on
a street, road, alley or right-of-way in which a water main
is laid. Said assessments shall be payable annually dur-
ing the life of the bonds and sufficient in aggregate amount
to pay any part or all of the interest on outstanding bonds,
and to provide for their retirement. Said authorities may
provide for the extinguishment by property owners of an-
nual front foot benefit charges upon such terms as they may
deem wise, provided any such arrangement shall provide
properly for the necessary payments on the outstanding
bonds. The municipal authorities may change the front foot
assessment rates from year to year, as may become neces-
sary, but the rate for any one year shall be uniform for
all property so assessed within the municipality. Said
authorities shall notify in writing all assessed property
owners as to the amount of their assessment, naming in
said notice a time and place when and where said owners
will be heard. The benefit charge assessed against any
property shall be final, subject only to revision at said
hearing. The authorities in the case of corner lots, irregu-
lar shaped lots and shallow lots fronting on more than
one street, and also in the case of small acreage and agri-
cultural property, may determine upon such lengths of
frontage for assessment as they deem reasonable and fair.
Front foot assessment charges, as above specified, shall be
a first lien on property against which they are assessed,
subject only to prior State and County charges and upon
complaint of the authorities before the Judge of the Peo-
ple's Court or the Circuit Court for Wicomico County, in
in which said land is situated shall be enforced by a judg-
ment and usual execution thereon. No front foot benefit
charge shall continue as a lien for a period longer than
two years from the date upon which the same became in
default, unless it is reduced to a judgment and duly re-
corded among the records of the Clerk's office in the
county in which said land is situated. Said benefit charges
shall be in default after sixty days from the date of levy
and said levy and any judgment obtained as a result of
the default of payment thereof shall bear interest at the
rate of 1 per cent a month from and after the time said
levy is in default.

155F The authorities shall provide for each and every
property abutting upon a street or right of way in which