1574 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 692

In all cases where service is required by the provisions of
this Act upon any resident of the District, such service shall
be made by any police officer of Montgomery County whose re-
turn in writing reciting the fact of such service and the time
and manner thereof shall be prima facie evidence of the fact
of such service. The cost of publication of any notice required
by this section shall be assessed against the owner of the prop-
erty charged with such special assessment and become a lien
upon such property and be collected with said assessment as
hereinafter provided.

In the event that provision shall be made for the payment
of the assessments aforesaid in installments, upon a failure to
pay any one or more of said installments when the same shall
become due the whole amount thereof and of such assessment
shall immediately become due and payable. All assessments
levied hereunder whenever the same shall become overdue
according to the terms of the ordinance providing therefor, or
by reason of the non-payment of any installment thereof, may
be collected in the manner in which general taxes due said
County are now or may hereafter be collected under the pro-
visions of the general and local laws of the State of Maryland
and any sale made for the non-payment of such assessment
and any deed made pursuant to such sale shall be entitled to
all the presumptions as to validity that now or may hereafter
attach to sales and deeds made for default in payment of gen-
eral taxes due said County; and when any real property as-
sessed as herein provided for shall become liable to sale for
any other assessment of tax whatsoever, then the assessment
levied under this section shall become immediately due and
payable and the property against which they are levied may be
sold therefor together with accrued interest thereon and costs
to day of sale. If any sale made hereunder shall be set aside
for failure to comply with the terms hereof, that fact shall not
bar the right of said Board to collect said assessment and en-
force the lien thereof by equitable suit as aforesaid.

In all cases where the property to be assessed for improve-
ments under the provisions of this Section is located at the
intersection of two streets and is what is known as a corner lot,
the Board shall have the power only to make an assessment
for the number of feet in the frontage of such lot and in case
the improvements are extended along the side of said prop-
erty, the Board shall only have the power to make assessment
for such improvements in excess of one hundred feet in addi-