ALBERT C. RITCHIE. GOVERNOR. 151

foot benefit charges for water supply construction shall be uni-
form for each class of property throughout the town. The
amount of the charge per front foot for each class of property
for water mains shall be determined from time to time by the
President and Commissioners of Northeast as costs and condi-
tions require. Said benefit charges shall be paid annually be-
ginning in the year such construction is begun, by all properties
located as above specified, for a period of years co-extensive
with the period of maturity of the bonds out of the proceeds
of which such construction was done; provided, however, that
any owner of property in the sub-division or business or indus-
trial class may, at his option, extinguish at any time said bene-
fit charge by the payment, in cash, of an amount which if put
at interest at 3½ per cent., compounded annually, would yield
an annuity equal to the annual assessments for the period for
which the bonds have, at the time the option is exercised, still
to run. The President and Commissioners of Northeast shall
at any time permit a connection with a water main by a prop-
erty owner whose property does not abut on said water main,
and who has not previous thereto paid a benefit for the con-
struction of said water main, provided the said President and
Commissioners of Northeast shall first determine the classifica-
tion of said property, and a front foot charge to be paid by said
property owner as though his property abutted on said water
main, 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 water main. 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 President and Commissioners
of Northeast before any Justice of the Peace or Circuit Court
for Cecil 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 the Court for Cecil
County. Said benefit charge shall be payable at the Office of
the President and Commissioners of Northeast immediately
upon being levied, and shall be in default after 60 days from
that date; and said levy, and any judgment obtained as a re-
sult of the default of the payment thereof, shall bear interest