ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 1527

acquired. The said Commission for the purpose of assessing
benefits shall divide all properties binding upon a street, road,
lane, alley or right-of-way, in which a water pipe or sanitary
sewer is to be laid, into four classes, namely: agricultural, small
acreage, industrial or business, and sub-division property, and
the Commission may subdivide each of said classes in sucii
manner as it may deem to be in the public interest. Imme-
diately upon the commencement of a water supply or sewerage
project in said District or Districts, the Commission is empower-
ed and directed to fix and levy a benefit charge upon all
property in said District abutting upon said water main or
sewer, in accordance with the classification, or sub-division there-
of, and shall in writing, notify all owners of said properties into
which class and subdivision their respective properties fall and
the charge determined upon, naming also in said notice a time
and place, when and at which said owner will be heard. Such
notice may be mailed to the last known address of the owner, or
served in person upon any adult occupying the premises, or in
case of a vacant or unimproved property posted upon the
premises. The classification of and the benefit assessed against
any property as made by the Commission shall be final, subject
only to revision at said hearing. The Commission may change
the classification of property from time to time as said prop-
erties change in the uses to which they are put. Said benefits
shall be levied for both water supply and sewerage construction
and shall be based for each class of property upon the number
of front feet abutting upon the street, lane, road, alley or
right-of-way in which the water pipe or sewer is placed; pro-
vided, however, that in the case of any irregular shaped lot
having a frontage on two or more streets and abutting upon a
road, street, lane, alley or right-of-way in which there is or is
being constructed a water main or sewer at any point of said
frontage shall be assessed for said frontage as the Commission
may determine to be reasonable and fair, not, however, to exceed
the longest frontage on any one street; and provided further
that no lot in a subdivision property shall be assessed on more
than one side unless said lot abuts upon two parallel streets,
that corner lots in this class shall be assessed on that frontage
towards which the building should naturally face, and this shall
be determined by the Commission, and that all lots in this class
shall be assessed for their full frontage even though a water
main or sewer may not extend along the full length of any
boundary; and provided further, that no land so classified as
agricultural by this Commission shall be assessed a front foot
benefit when such agricultural land has constructed through it
or in front of it a sewer or water main, until such time as a
water or sewer connection is made, and when so made and