1000 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 356

tion to be not less than ten days before said hearing, and by
posting a copy of said notice in a conspicuous place upon the
property in question.

If after the hearing the Board shall be of the opinion that
the health, morals, safety or welfare requires the work or
improvement proposed to be done or made, they shall provide
by ordinance for the same and may charge the expense thereof
or any part of such expense against the property which they
shall find to be specially benefited thereby according to the
linear frontage of said property, and they shall also provide
in said ordinance the time and terms upon which payment of
said assessment for such work and improvement shall be made
by said property owners and the rate of interest that shall be
charged upon the deferred payments. Assessments so levied
as aforesaid shall be a lien upon the property against which
they are charged superior to all other liens from the date of
the notice of such assessment to be served upon such lot
owners personally, if said lot owner be a resident of the Dis-
trict, and if said lot owner be a non-resident of said Dis-
trict, to be served by publication and posting as hereinbefore
provided.

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
return 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 property 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 ac-
cording 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