ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR.

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amount of the charge per front foot for each class of prop-
erty 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 not previ-
ously 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 prop-
erty 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 im-
mediately upon being levied, and shall be overdue and in
default after sixty days from that day, at which time the
Commission may proceed to enforce payment thereof;
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. The annual benefit as-
sessments or other charges as above specified shall be a first
lien upon the property against which they are assessed
until paid, any statute of limitations to the contrary not-
withstanding, subject only to prior State, and county taxes,
and if any property be sold for State and/or county taxes
by the Treasurer of said county; and if after sale there be
a surplus and after all expenses shall have been paid; then
the said Commission upon proper Petition to the Circuit
Court for said county shall be allowed any balance from
said surplus and shall be a preferred Lienor to the extent
of its lien, and for the purpose of giving notice to the gen-
eral public as to existing liens: and charges against; any
property within: any sanitary district abutting upon any
water or sewer main, the said Commission shall keep a
public, record of all names of owners of property locations
of said property lot numbers when of record, and the
amount of such benefit charges water service charges or