840 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 428

nually, beginning in the year in which the purchase or con-
demnation or construction is made or begun, by all properties
located as above specified for a period of years coextensive with
the period of maturity of the bonds out of the proceeds of
which such construction was done; provided, however, that
any owner of property may, at his option, within one year from
the time said front foot assessment or benefit charge is levied
extinguish the same by the payment in cash, in one sum, of
the proportion of the estimated cost of the project of which
the construction or acquisition abutting on his property is a
part, represented by the number of front feet with which he is
assessed, with interest at the rate of six per cent per annum
from the date of said levy, less any annual payment that may
have been paid thereon. The Mayor and Council of Salisbury
shall at any time permit a connection with a water main or
sewer by a property owner whose property does not abut on
said wafer main or sewer and who has not previous thereto
paid a benefit for the construction of said water main or sewer
provided that the Mayor and Council of Salisbury shall first
determine the classification of said property and a front-foot
charge to be paid by said property owner as though his prop-
erty abutted on 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 in every
respect stand in the same position as if the said property
abutted upon a water main or sewer. The annual benefit
charges as above specified shall be a first lien upon the prop-
erty against which they are assessed, subject only to prior
State, County and Municipal charges, and shall be enforced
by a judgment upon complaint of the Mayor and Council of
Salisbury before any Justice of the Peace or the Circuit Court
for Wicomico County, and usual execution thereon. No such
annual benefit charge shall continue as a lien for a period
longer than two years from the date from which the same be-
came in default unless it is reduced to a judgment and duly
recorded among the records of the office of the Clerk of the
Circuit Court for said Wicomico County. The said benefit
charge shall be payable at the office of the Mayor and Council
of Salisbury immediately upon being levied and shall be in
default after sixty days from that date; and said levy and any
judgment obtained as a result of the default of the pay-
ment, thereof, shall bear interest at the rate of one per
cent, a month from and after the time said levy is in default.

334. For the purpose of retiring the bonds authorized
to be issued by this sub-title and the payment of the interest
thereon, there shall be levied against all the assessable prop-
erty within the City of Salisbury by the Mayor and Council of