ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 187

deem reasonable and fair. Front foot benefit charges for water
supply construction shall be uniform 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 Mayor and Common Council of Man-
chester as costs and conditions, require. Said benefit charges
shall be paid annually beginning 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-divi-
sion or business or industrial class may, at his option, extin-
guish at any time said benefit charge by the payment, in cash,
of an amount which if put at interest at 3½ per cent., com-
pounded 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 Mayor and Com-
mon Council of Manchester shall at any time permit a connec-
tion with a water main by a property owner whose property
does not abut on said water main, and who has not previous
thereto paid a benefit for the construction of said water main,
provided the said Mayor and Common Council of Manchester
shall first determine the classification 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 Mayor and Common Council of Man-
chester before any Justice of the Peace or Circuit Court
for Carroll County, and usual execution thereon. No such
annual benefit charges shall continue as a lien for a period
longer than two years from the date from which the same be-
came in default, unless it is reduced to a judgment and duly
recorded among the records of the office of the Clerk of the
Circuit Court for Carroll County. Said benefit charge shall
be payable at the office of the Mayor and Common Council of
Manchester immediately upon being levied, and shall be in
default after 60 days from that date; and said levy, and any
judgment obtained as a result of the default of the payment