ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 819

shall ascertain the entire expense for the improvement and
shall assess each person who is liable with his proper share of
said expense, and to this end the Mayor and Council shall pass
an order wherein the persons who are bound to pay any por-
tion of the expenses, and the property on account of which
they are bound to pay the same shall be mentioned, and each
of said persons shall be ordered to pay the treasurer of Poco-
moke City his proper part of the expense. The said assessment
shall be a tax and it shall bind the property affected thereby,
and as to such property it shall be a lien thereon with a priority
over all other liens; a copy of the order may be filed and re-
corded in the office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court for Wor-
cester County if the amounts ordered to be paid therein be not
paid in thirty days after the passage of the order, and the lien
may be enforced by scire facias, or bill in equity, as in the
case of a mechanics' lien. If the property affected, and on
account of which the assessment was made, is not sufficiently
described for identification, the description may be perfected
in the writ of scire facias, or bill in equity. If scire facias is
resorted to a separate writ shall be issued in the case of each
person who has not paid his assessment, but if in any case two
or more persons are together liable to pay the same on account
of the same property, one scire facias shall suffice for all such
parties. But all the assessments may be adjusted under the
same bill and decree in a court of equity; the property of in-
fants shall be affected equally with that of adults under and
by virtue of such assessment; but in the case of infants the
proceedings to enforce the same shall be by bill of equity; the
judgment under scire facias or the decree in equity shall set
forth the priority which the assessment made by the order of
the Mayor and Council holds and possesses in the premises;
under the decree the payment of the lien may be compelled by
execution or by appointment of a trustee to sell. The adjusters
shall be paid one dollar per day each while performing the
duty herein imposed on them.

271. The Mayor and Council shall have authority by ordi-
nance to require an annual license or permit, to be applied
for and obtained by the parties or persons hereinafter men-
tioned, and fix the amounts for said licenses and permits, and
to prescribe the penalties to be imposed for the failure to pro-
cure the licenses or permits and pay for same. The money paid
for any and all such licenses and permits required by ordinance
and issued under the order of the Mayor and Council shall

belong to them for the corporate purposes of the town. The