WM. PRESTON LANE, JR., GOVERNOR. 531

is made, and when so made such land shall become liable for
a front foot assessment for a frontage not exceeding 1,000
feet.

Front foot benefit charges for water supply and sewerage
construction shall be as nearly uniform as is reasonably
practical for each class or sub-class of property throughout
each sanitary district for any one year and no benefit charge
once levied shall be increased; provided, however, that when-
ever the Commission acquires an existing system other than
a municipal system, the construction of which has been added
in whole or in part to the purchase price of land or lots abut-
ting upon said system and which contribution the Commis-
sion has determined to be a factor in the cost to the Commis-
sion of such system, the Commission may, in its discretion
levy a front foot assessment less than the uniform front foot
assessment levied in the remainder of the district in which said
system is located.

The amount of the charge per front foot for each class of
property for both water main and sewer may be reduced from
time to time by the Commission in its discretion, if costs and
conditions are deemed by it to justify such reduction. Said
benefit charge shall be paid annually by all properties located
as above specified, for a period of years co-extensive with the
period of maturity of the bonds out of the proceeds of which
such construction was done.

The Commission shall at any time permit a connection with
a water main or sewer by the property owner whose property
does not abut on said water main or sewer and who has hot
previously thereto paid a benefit charge for the construction
of said water main or sewer; provided, said Commission shall
classify said property and determine a front foot charge to
be paid by said property owner as though his or her property
abutted upon said water main or sewer; and in the event
of such connection being made, said property owner and
said property as to all charges, rates and benefits shall stand
in every respect in the same position as if the said property
abutted upon a water main or sewer.

Said benefit charge shall be payable at the office of the
Commission immediately upon being levied, and shall be over-
due and in default after sixty days from that day, at which
time the Commission may proceed to enforce payment there-
of; and the said benefit charge and any judgment or decree
obtained as a result of default in payment thereof shall bear
interest at the rate of three-fourths per centum per month
from and after the time said benefit assessment or other
charges are in default.