ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 1507

or as soon thereafter as convenient, and at such trial either
party shall have the right to a jury trial as in cases at common
law; any of the proceedings may, on such appeal, be amended
as to matters of form as fully as the proceedings in appeal
from justices of the peace may be amended. L'pon the trial of
such appeal the court shall give such judgment in the matter as
may be proper, including costs, and the judgment so given
shall be certified by the clerk of said court to the said County
Commissioners. If no appeal shall be taken from any order
ratifying or confirming said assessments of benefits or award
of damages within the time heretofore specified, or if on any
appeal the said assessment or award is confirmed in whole or in
part, then said assessments imposed by said order, or in the
case of an appeal to the extent to which the assessment or
awards made in said order which is the subject of the appeal
is affirmed by the judgment on said appeal, shall be and be-
come due and payable to the County Treasurer of Baltimore
County, and any and all such assessments for benefits shall be
and become a tax and lien upon the property, real and personal,
of the person or corporation against whom said assessment may
be made to the same extent and as fully as State and county
taxes, and subject to the same limitation as to time; if not
paid within thirty days from the time when they shall re-
spectively become payable, said assessments may be collected by
the Treasurer of the county by an action of debt or in the

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same manner as county taxes are ordinarily collected, or by a
bill in equity at the instance of the Treasurer to enforce such
Hen; and upon any order awarding damages becoming final,
or in the event of an appeal to the extent that such order is
affirmed on appeal, the damages so awarded shall become due
and payable.

SEC. 3... The County Commissioners of Baltimore County
are authorized to allow and provide for the payment of any
assessment which may be made, levied or imposed under Sec-
tion 2 in instalments and to fix the amount of such instalments,
the interest on deferred payments at a rate not exceeding six
per cent, per annum and the time within which all such instal-
ments muat be paid.

SEC. 4. That for the purpose of providing funds for con-
structing, establishing or acquiring any water system which in
the judgment of the County Commissioners of Baltimore Coun-
ty is necessary to be constructed, established or acquired for
the public health, welfare or convenience, the said County Com-