1558 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 542

eral circulation in said town, the last publication to be not less
than ten days before said hearing, and by posting a copy of
said notice in a conspicuous place upon the property in ques-
tion.

(C) If after the hearing the Council shall be of the opinion
that the public health, safety or comfort requires the work or
improvement proposed to be done or made, they shall provide
by ordinance for the same and may charge the expense thereof
or any part of such expense against the property which they
shall find to be specially benefited thereby according to the
linear frontage of said property, and they shall also provide in
said ordinance the time and terms upon which payment of said
assessment for such work and improvement shall be made by
said property owners and the Tate of interest that shall be
charged upon the deferred payments. Assessments so levied
as aforesaid shall be a lien upon the property against which
they are charged superior to all other liens from the date of
the notice of such assessment to be served upon such lot owners
personally, if said lot owner be a resident of the town of Tako-
ma Park, and if said lot owner be a non-resident of said town,
to be served by publication and posting as hereinbefore pro-
vided.

(D) In all cases where service is required by the provisions
of this Charter upon any resident of the town of Takoma Park,
Maryland, such service shall be made by the Bailiff who may
be allowed a fee of one dollar for said service and whose return
in writing reciting the fact of such service and the time and
manner thereof shall be prima facie evidence of the fact of such
service. The cost of such service, and the cost of the publica-
tion of any notice required by this section shall be assessed
against the owner of the property charged with such special
assessment and become a lien upon such property and be col-
lected with said assessment as hereinafter provided.

(E) In the event that provision shall be made for the pay-
ment of the assessments aforesaid in installments, upon a
failure to pay any one or more of said installments when the
same shall become due the whole amount thereof and of such
assessment shall immediately become due and payable. All
assessments levied hereunder whenever the same shall become
overdue according to the terms of the ordinance providing
therefor, or by reason of the non-payment of any installment
thereof, may be collected by action in equity to be brought in
the county in which the land so assessed is situated or in the
same manner as general taxes due said town are now or may