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pleted in or for any Taxing and Assessment District, said
County Commissioners, acting as District Council for such
district, is empowered and directed to fix and levy a benefit
charge upon all real property in said district benefited by
the said erosion prevention works. Before proceeding to
assess such benefits it shall first notify the owners of real
property in such Assessment District that it proposed to
make an assessment of benefit against their real property
for such erosion prevention works, and that upon a day
certain to be named therein a hearing will be granted such
owners at a place designated therein. Said notice of the
proposed assessment, as far as practicable, shall be mailed
to each property owner in said Assessment District by
placing the same in an envelop addressed to his last known
address and depositing the same, postpaid, in a United
States Post Office, and by publication thereof once a week
for two successive weeks in a newspaper of general circu-
lation published in Anne Arundel County. After said hear-
ing has been granted, said Commissioners, acting as such
District Council, shall determine the benefits accruing to
each of the lots or parcels of land in said Assessment Dis-
trict from the construction of said erosion prevention
works and shall fix and levy a benefit charge upon each lot
or parcel of land in said Assessment District to the extent
it is benefited by the construction of said erosion preven-
tion works, or part thereof. Said benefit charge shall be a
lien upon the real property against which it is assessed and
shall be paid annually as county taxes are required to be
paid, by all such lots or parcels of land in such district
for a period of years co-extensive with the period of ma-
turity of the notes, certificates of indebtedness or bonds out
of the proceeds of which such erosion prevention work was
done.

521. For the purpose of providing additional funds to
pay the semi-annual interest on such notes, certificates
of indebtedness or bonds, and the principal thereof,
of each of said districts, when and as they mature,
and providing all the funds necessary to pay the
costs and expenses of each district to carry into effect the
provisions of this Act, and the entire cost of repairing and
keeping in repair in each district the erosion prevention
works constructed therein, the County Commissioners of
Anne Arundel County, acting as District Council for each
of such districts, shall annually levy against all the assess-
able property in each district so improved, a tax which,
with the money collected from the benefit charges, will be