ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 579

said summons shall be returned non est, said commission may
cause an order of the justice of the peace or the Circuit Court
to be published in any newspaper in the county in which the land
lies, for two successive issues, requiring the defendant to be
named therein to appear to said complaint at a certain time
and place to be named therein, and in default of such appear-
ance, after due proof of publication and proof of the fact that
there is due and owing said commission the amount so claimed,
the Circuit Court or the justice of the peace before whom said
complaint is pending shall enter judgment against said de-
fendant or defendants and tax the costs, including the costs of
publication, if any. No such benefit charge shall continue as
a lien for a period longer than two years from the date upon
which the same became in default, unless it is reduced to a
judgment and duly recorded among the records of the clerk's
office in the county in which said land is situated. Said bene-
fit charge shall be payable at the office of the commission im-
mediately upon being levied and shall be in default after sixty
days from that date; and said benefit charge and any judg-
ment obtained as a result of the default of the payment thereof
shall bear interest at the rate of one per cent, a month from and
after the time said benefit charge is in default.

SEC. 9. And be it further enacted, That said commission
shall provide for each and every property abutting upon a street
or right of way in which, under this Act, a water main or sani-
tary sewer is laid, a water service pipe or sewer connection
which, shall be extended, as required, from the water main or
sewer to the property line of the abutting lot, said service pipe
or connection to be constructed by, and at the sole expense of,
said commission. When any water main or sewer is declared
by said commission complete and ready for the delivery of
water or the reception of sewage, every abutting property owner,
after due notice, shall make connection of all spigots or hyd-
rants, toilets and waste drains with said water main or sewer
within a time prescribed by said commission. Where the afore-
said fixtures do not exist, or are of a nature which, in the judg-
ment of the commission, is improper or inadequate, satisfac-
tory equipment 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 commission;
and all wells that are found by the commission to be polluted
or a menace to health shall likewise be abandoned and closed.