WM. PRESTON LANE, JR., GOVERNOR. 529

be collected during the year in which the construction is
completed on the water supply, sewerage or drainage systems,
or in which the systems are purchased or acquired.

The said Commission for the purpose of assessing benefits
shall divide all properties binding upon a street, road, lane,
alley or right-of-way, in which a water pipe or sanitary
sewer is to be laid, into the following classes, namely:
Agricultural, large tracts of land, swamp land, low land, pub-
lic parks, airports, cemeteries, church property, (not exceed-
ing five acres for a church, meeting house, or other house of
worship, parsonage or burying ground, tq be used only for
such purpose); race tracks, ball parks and other athletic
fields, small acreage, industrial or business, and subdivision
property, and the Commission may subdivide each of said
classes in such manner as it may deem to be in the public
interests.

Definitions—For the purpose of this Act agricultural prop-
erty is defined as any tract of land consisting of five acres
or more, abutting upon a water or sewer main or pipe line
of the Commission, in which the owner is actually engaged
in the science of agriculture, poultry or livestock raising.

Large Tracts of Land, consisting of five acres or more,
abutting upon a water main or sewer main or pipe line of
the Commission, may be defined as any inactive land not used
as a farm or pasture, but may be wooded land, swamp land,
or low land.

Small Acreage, is defined as any land less than five acres,
which abuts upon a water or sewer main or pipe line of the
Commission for an average distance of more than three
hundred feet.

Airport Property, shall be classified by the Commission
as industrial or business and upon such average frontage as
the Commission may assess from time to time in its discre-
tion, according to the size of water and/or sewer mains or
other facilities required to serve said airport and to provide
adequate service thereto.

Whenever any water supply or sewerage project in said
district or districts shall have been completed by March 31st,
in any one year, regardless of when said construction was
commenced, then the said Commission shall fix and levy a
benefit charge as of the first day of January in which the
project was completed upon all property in said district
abutting upon said water main or sewer, in accordance with
the classification or subdivision thereof, and shall in writing,
notify all owners of said properties into which class and sub-
division their respective properties fall and charge determined