172 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 84

Councilmen for the use of water supplied by them are hereby
made a lien upon the real estate upon which said water is used,
of equal rank with other corporate taxes, and shall be collected
as such taxes are authorized to be collected under said Section
150 of said Article, and in addition thereto a suit in personam
may be brought against the owner of any building by said
Clerk for water rents for water used in any building, whether
said use was by the owner or his tenant or sub-tenant.

Section 149. The Clerk shall account for the amount of
such assessments in the manner provided for by Section 141
of Article 1 of the Code of Public Local Laws as amended by
the General Assembly of Maryland in 1924, and on all taxes
remaining unpaid for three months after the same shall have
been levied he shall charge and collect interest from the date
of the levy at the rate of six per centum per annum, to be ac-
counted for with the tax; and in all suits by the Mayor and
Councilmen upon the bond of said Clerk for any neglect of
duty, or for not collecting any tax placed in his hands, accord-
ing to law, or for breach of his duty in not paying over money
collected by him, proof of the delivery of the levy list shall be
sufficient prima facie evidence to entitle the Mayor and Coun-
cilmen to recover judgment in such suit unless said Clerk shall
show that he has discharged his duty in such case according
to law.

Section 150. All taxes levied by the Mayor and Council-
men for the general purpose of the corporation shall be a lien
upon the property of the party against whom said tax may be
charged, whether such person be a resident or non-resident of
said City, whether adult or infant, non compos, feme
covert, or otherwise; and said tax may be collected by judg-
ment or attachment, or the Clerk may sell real estate
for payment of taxes due thereon by complying with the
same requirements that county collectors are directed to com-
ply with by the Public General Laws of this State, in order to
sell real estate for the payment of State and county taxes, ex-
cept that advertisement in one newspaper published in the
City of Frostburg; if there is one; otherwise in some news-
paper published in Allegany County, shall be deemed suffi-
cient advertisement; and the sale shall take place in front of
the postoffice of said City.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That Chapter 639 of
the Acts of the General Assembly of Maryland of 1900, en-
titled "An Act to provide a Tax Collector for the Town of