1530 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 676

in said Bill, and as to those -persons who have answered said
Bill shall determine the right of the matter and enter a decree
accordingly. Said decree when in favor of the Commission
shall have the effect of a lien upon the property mentioned in
said Bill. The Clerk shall at the request of the Commission
issue a subpoena or summons against any of such defendants,
and as to any of said defendants returned '' summoned,'' and
against whom a decree has been entered, said decree shall have
the force and effct of a judgment in personam against the said
defendants summoned as well as imposing a lien on the land.
Immediately after the filing of said decree the Clerk of the
Court shall enter the same in the proper judgment records of
said Court against each of the defendants named in said Bill
against whom a decree has been filed, the name of said defend-
ants and the amount decreed against each of them, together with
the costs. The Clerk of the Court shall be allowed fifty cents
for each defendant named in said Bill, which shall be paid by
the Commission and recovered by the Commission as costs. The
Clerk of the Court shall further tax such sum as the Commis-
sion shall certify in said Equity Court as the costs of publica-
tion, not in any case to exceed one dollar for each defendant.
Such judgment shall remain a lien upon the property mentioned
in said Bill and a judgment in personajn against each defendant
summoned until the same is paid, any statute of limitations to
the contrary notwithstanding, and may be collected and en-
forced by said Commission at any time, as other judgments in
said Court are collected and enforced. Said Bill may be filed
against the owner of record at the time said levy was made, or
the owner of record at the time said Bill is filed, or any owner
of record between said dates, and publication thereon shall be
notice to all persons having any interest in said property.

SEC. 11. And be it further enacted, That the Commission
shall provide for each and every property abutting upon a street
or right-of-way, in which under this Act, a water main or sewer
is laid, a water service pipe or sewer connection which shall be
extended, as required, from the water main or sewer to the prop-
erty line of the abutting lot, said service pipe or connection
by and at the sole expense of the Commission, but subject to a
reasonable charge for said conection as provided in Section 12
of this Act, which said charge shall be paid by all property
owners at the office of the Commission before the actual con-
nection with any pipe or private property is made. When any
water or sewer is declared by said Commission complete and
ready for the delivery of water or the reception of sewage, every
abutting property owner, after due notice, shall make a connec-
tion of all spigots or hydrants, toilets and waste drains with
said water main or sewer within the time prescribed by the Com-
mission. Where the aforesaid fixtures do not exist, or are of