ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 79

ten notice personally upon the parties to be affected by said
proceedings, and allowing them to be heard before any such
proceedings are had. But nothing in this section shall be
construed to prevent said Mayor and Councilmen from con-
structing any sewer or sewers or system of sewers and paying
for the same out of the funds of the city, nor to prevent said
Mayor and Councilmen, in the event no assessment is made
upon the property owners for the cost of said sewers, from
charging £ reasonable sum for the right of connection there-
with in perpetuity and to require all owners of improved or
vacant property to which said sewer when attached would be
benefited thereby, to take out and pay for a license to attach
to said sewer within sixty days after the completion of said
work, all of which powers are hereby granted to said Mayor
and Councilmen; and provided further, that the Mayor and
Councilmen may exercise this right to repave, regrade, recurb,
and resewer, only after the expiration of ten years from the
time of the completion of the paving, grading, curbing or
sewering of said streets, lanes or alleys, or parts thereof, which
are to be repaved, regarded, recurbed or resewered.

Whenever the Mayor and Councilmen shall levy any sum of
money on the owners of property in said city for grading,
paving, curbing, sewering, regrading, repaving, recurbing, re-
sewering or otherwise improving the streets, lanes or alleys in
said city, or any of them, or shall make a charge for the right
of connecting to a sewer, the sum so levied or charged shall
be a preferred lien upon said property the same as city taxes
now are; provided said Mayor and Councilmen shall within
ninety days after the completion of such grading, paving, curb-
ing, sewering, regrading, repaving, recurbing, resewering, or
otherwise improving, cause to be filed with the Clerk of the
Circuit Court for Allegany County, a statement showing the
whole amount expended in such grading, paving, curbing, sew-
ering, regrading, repaving, recurbing, resewering, or otherwise
improving, and the names of the persons among whom the
said sum has been apportioned and the amount apportioned
to each, and a general description of the land owned by each
of said parties upon which such sums are intended to operate as
a lien, and said statement shall constitute a lien on said prop-
erty for the space of three years and no longer, unless the
same shall be revived or enforced by scire facias as provided
in the next succeeding section, and said sum shall also bear
interest at the rate of six per centum per annum from the date
on which said statement is filed.