1484 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 593

to protect themselves against possible changes in the cost of
construction and the loss of interest All sums received under
such plan of extinguishment shall be preserved in tact by the
Commissioners, less the payment of the proportion of interest
and sinking fund properly chargeable to the amount so re-
ceived, and used for future construction. The Commissioners
of Delmar shall at any time permit a connection with a sewer
by a property owner whose property does not abut on said
sewer, and who has not previous thereto paid a benefit for the
construction of said sewer, provided the said Commissioners
of Delmar shall first determine the classification of said prop-
erty, and a front foot charge to be paid by said property owner
as though his property abutted on said sewer; and in the event
of such connection being made, said property owner and said
property as to all charges, rates and benefits, shall in every
respect stand in the same position as if the said property
abutted upon a 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 Commissioners of Delmar before any Justice
of the Peace or the Circuit Court for Wicomico 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 Wicomico County. Said benefit
charge shall be payable at the office of the Treasurer of the
Commissioners of Delmar immediately 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 bear 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 Commission-
ers of Delmar shall provide for each and every property abut-
ting upon a street or right-of-way in which, under this Act, a
sanitary sewer is laid, a sewer connection which shall be ex-
tended, 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 Council of Delmar. When
any sanitary sewer is declared by said Commissioners of Del-
mar complete and ready for the reception of sewage, every
abutting property owner, after due notice, shall make connec-
tion of all toilets and waste drains, except rain leaders, with