618 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 236

been accepted, or as soon as any dispute is settled by arbitra-
tion or suit at law, the Mayor and Council, upon their previous
order fixing the proportion which each person liable to pay
shall contribute, shall ascertain the entire expense for the im-
provement and shall assess each person who is liable with his
proper share of said expense, and to this end the Mayor and
Council shall pass an order wherein the persons who are bound
to pay any portion of the expenses, and the property on ac-
count of which they are bound to pay the same shall be men-
tioned, and each of said persons shall be ordered to pay the
treasurer of Pocomoke City his proper part of the expense. The
said assessment shall be a tax and it shall bind the property
affected thereby, and as to such property it shall be a lien there-
on with a priority over all other liens; a copy of the order may
be filed and recorded in the office of the clerk of the Circuit
Court for Worcester County if the amounts ordered to be paid
therein be not paid in thirty days after the passage of the
order, and the lien may be enforced by scire facias, or bill in
equity, as in the case of a mechanics' lien. If the property
affected, and on account of which the assessment was made, is
not sufficiently described for identification, the description may
be perfected in the writ of scire facias, or bill in equity. If
scire facias is resorted to a separate writ shall be issued in the
case of each person who has not paid his assessment, but if in
any case two or more persons are together liable to pay the
same on account of the same property, one scire facias shall
suffice for all such parties. But all the assessments may be
adjusted under the same bill and decree in a court of equity;
the property of infants shall be affected equally with that of
adults under and by virtue of such assessment; but in the case
of infants the proceedings to enforce the same shall be by bill
in equity; the judgment under scire facias or the decree in
equity shall set forth the priority which the assessment made
by the order of the Mayor and Council holds and possesses in
the premises; under the decree the payment of the lien may be
compelled by execution or by appointment of a trustee to sell.
The adjusters shall be paid one dollar per day each while per-
forming the duty herein imposed on them.

Approved April 10th, 1918.