1938 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 792

property owners of annual front foot benefit charges upon
such terms as they may deem wise, provided any such arrange-
ment 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 necessary, but the rate for any one year shall be uni-
form 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 authori-
ties in the case of corner lots, irregular shaped lots and shallow
lots fronting on more than one street, and also in the case of
small acreage and agricultural property, may determine upon
such lengths of frontage for assessment as they deem reason-
able and fair. Front foot assessment charges, as above speci-
fied, 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
People'e Court or the Circuit Court for Wicomico County, in
which said land is situated shall be enforced by a judgment
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 recorded 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 judg-
ment 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.

94X. The authorities shall provide for each and every
property abutting upon a street or right of way in which
under this Act a water main is laid, a water connection which
shall be extended, as required, from the water main to the
property line of the abutting lot, said water connection to be
constructed by and at the sole expense of said authorities.
When any water main is declared by said authorities complete
and ready for the delivery of water, every abutting property
owner, after due notice, shall make connection of all water
plumbing with said main within such reasonable time as may
be prescribed by said authorities. Any violation of the pro-
visions of this section shall be a misdemeanor, punishable
under Section 94AH.

94Y. For the purpose of providing funds for maintaining,
repairing and operating the water system constructed under-