984 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 381

the payment of the proportion of interest and a sinking fund
properly chargeable to the amount so received, and used for
future construction; and provided further, that any property
owner, whose property is classified under business or industrial,
or subdivision, may, at his option, at any time during the life
of said assessment extinguish the same by payment in cash of
an amount, which, if put at interest at 3½ per cent., compound-
ed annually, would yield an annuity equal to the annual assess-
ment for the period for which said assessment has yet to run.
The Mayor and Town Council shall at any time permit a con-
nection with a water main or sewer by a property owner whose
property does not abut on said water main or sewer and who
has not previously thereto paid an assessment for the construc-
tion of said water main or sewer, provided the said Mayor and
Town Council 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 or
sewer; and in the event of such connection being made, said
property owner and said property, as to all charges, rates and
assessments, shall in every respect stand in the same position as
if the said property abutted upon a water main or sewer. The
annual assessments 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 en-
forced by a judgment upon complaint of the Mayor and Town
Council before any justice of the peace or the Circuit Court of
Garrett County, and usual execution thereon. No such annual
assessment 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 at the office of the clerk of Garrett County. Said as-
sessment shall be payable at the office of the Mayor and Town
Council 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 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 Mayor and
Town Council shall provide for each and every property abutt-
ing upon a street or right-of-way in which, under this Act. a
water main or sewer is laid, a water and sewer connection
which shall be extended as required, from the water main and
sewer to the property line of the abutting lot, said connection