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sewer. The annual benefit charges as above specified shall
be a first lien upon the property 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 Common Council of Union Bridge before
any Justice of the Peace or the Circuit Court of Carroll
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 became in default,
unless it is reduced to a judgment and duly recorded among
the records of the office of the Clerk of Carroll County. Said
benefit charge shall be payable at the office of the Treasurer
of the Mayor and Common Council of Union Bridge immedi-
ately 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 payment thereof, shall been
interest at the rate of 1 per cent a month from and after the
time said levy is in default.

SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That said Mayor and
Common Council of Union Bridge shall provide for each and
every property abutting upon a street or right of way in which,
under this Act, a sewer is laid a sewer connection which shall
be extended, as required, from the sewer to the property line
of the abutting lot, said connection to be constructed by, and
at the sole expense of said Mayor and Common Council of
Union Bridge. When any sewer is declared by said Mayor
and Common Council of Union Bridge complete and ready for
the reception of sewage, every abutting property owner, after
due notice, shall make connection of all toilets and waste-
drains, except rain leaders, with said sewer within a time pre-
scribed, by said Mayor and Common Council of Union Bridge.
Where the aforesaid fixtures do not exist, or are of a nature
which, in the judgment of the Mayor and Common Council of
Union Bridge, is improper .or inadequate, satisfactory equip-
ment shall be installed. All cesspools, sink drains and privies
shall be abandoned and left in such a way that they cannot
again be used nor injuriously affect the public health, said
disposition to be determined by the Mayor and Common Coun-
cil of Union Bridge. Any violation of the provisions of this
section shall be a misdemeanor punishable under Section 15 of
this Act.

SEC. 8. And be it further enacted, That before any sewer