ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 1529

so received, and used for future construction. The Commis-
sion shall at any time permit a connection with a water main
or sewer by the property owner whose property does not abut on
said water main or sewer and who has not previously thereto
paid a benefit charge for the construction of said water main
or sewer, provided, said Commission shall classify said prop-
erty and determine a front foot charge to be paid by said
property owner as though his or her property abutted upon
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 benefits shall stand in every respect in the
same position as if the said property abutted upon a water main
or sewer. Said benefit charge shall be payable at the office of
the Commission immediately upon being levied, and shall be
overdue and in default after sixty days from that date, at which
time the Commission may proceed to enforce payment thereof;
and said benefit charge and any judgment or decree obtained
as a result of default in the payment thereof shall bear interest
at the rate of one per centum per month from and after the
time said benefit charge is in default. 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 and
County taxes but no such charge shall continue as a lien for
a period longer than two years from the date upon which same
became in default unless the said lien is reduced to a judgment
or a decree and recorded in the Circuit Court of Anne Arundel
County and for the purpose of reducing the same to a decree
the following procedure shall be followed: At any time
within two years from said default the Commission may file
its bill on the Equity side of said Court against all persons,
alleged to be in default setting forth the date of the levy of said
charge the property against which the same was levied and
the amount thereof and shall pray that the said property and
the said owner shall be declared to be indebted to the Commis-
sion in the amount claimed. The clerk shall thereupon issue
an order of publication against all of the defendants in said
cause which order shall state the substance of the bill and shall
notify all of said persons to answer said Bill on or before a
certain date to be named therein which date shall be not less
than forty nor more than sixty days after the filing of said
Bill. Said Order of Publication shall be published three times
in any newspaper published within the County in which such
suit is filed. After proof of publication and on the date named
therein or any date to which said hearing may be continued,
the Court shall hear the said Commission and any person having
answered said Bill, and as to all who have not answered said
Bill shall declare a lien established upon the property set forth