56 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 27

owners will be heard. The benefit charge assessed against
any property shall be final, subject only to revision at said
hearing. The authorities in the case of corner lots, irregular
shaped lots and shallow lots fronting on more than one street,
and also in the case of small acreage and agricultural property,
may determine upon such lengths of frontage for assessment
as they deem reasonable and fair. Front foot assessment
charges, as above specified, shall be a first lien on property
against which they are assessed, subject only to prior State
and county charges and upon complaint of the authorities be-
fore any Justice of the Peace or the Circuit Court for Wicom-
ico County, in which said land is situated shall be enforced
by a judgment and usual execution thereon. No front foot
benefit charge shall continue as a lien for a period longer than
two years from the date upon which the same became in de-
fault, unless it is reduced to a judgment and duly recorded
among the records of the Clerk's office in the county in which
said land is situated. Said benefit charges shall be in default
after sixty days from the date of levy and said levy and any
judgment obtained as a result of the default of payment there-
of shall bear interest at the rate of 1 per cent a month from
and after the time said levy is in default.

SEC. 6. And be it further enacted. That the authorities
shall provide for each and every property abutting upon a
street or right-of-way in which under this Act a water main
is laid, a water connection which shall be extended, as re-
quired, from the water main to the property line of the abut-
ting lot, said water connection to be constructed by and at
the sole expense of said authorities. When any water main
is declared by said authorities complete and ready for the de-
livery of water, every abutting property owner, after due
notice, shall make connection of all water plumbing with said
main within such reasonable time as may be prescribed by
said authorities. Any violation of the provisions of this sec-
tion shall be a misdemeanor, punishable under Section 16.

SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That for the purpose
of providing funds for maintaining, repairing and operating
the water system constructed under the provisions of this Act,
including overhead expense and proper depreciation allowance,
the authorities shall have full power and authority to make
such service rates as they may deem necessary, chargeable
against all properties served by a water supply system under
their ownership. Service rates shall be subject to change from