496 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 243

event of such connection being made, said benefits shall
in every respect stand in the same position as if the said
property abutted on a water or sewer main. The annual
benefit charges as above specified shall be a first lien upon
the property against which they are assessed, subject only
to prior State, County and Municipal charges, and shall be
enforced by a judgment upon complaint of the President
and Commissioners of North East before any Justice of
the Peace, or Circuit Court for Cecil County, and usual
execution thereon. No such annual benefit charge shall
continue as a lien for a period longer than two years from
the date from which the same became in default, unless
it is reduced to a judgment and duly recorded among the
records of the Office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court for
Cecil County. Said benefit charge shall be payable at the
office of the President and Commissioners of North East
immediately upon being levied, and shall be in default
after sixty days from that date; and said levy, and any
judgment obtained as a result of the default of the pay-
ment thereof, shall bear interest at the rate of one per
centum a month from and after the time said levy is in
default.

SEC. 8. And be it further enacted, That the said Presi-
dent and Commissioners of North East shall provide for
each and every property abutting upon a street or right-of-
way in which, under this Act, a water or sewer main is laid,
a water or sewer connection which shall be extended as re-
quired, from the water or sewer main to the property line
of the abutting lot, said connection to be construed by, and
at the sole expense of the President and Commissioners of
North East. When any water or sewer main is declared by
the said President and Commissioners of North East to be
complete and ready for the delivery of water and, or, sewage,
every abutting property owner, after due notice, shall make
connection of all spigots or hydrants and toilets with said
water main, and shall make such connection as to discharge
all of the sewage from said property into said sewer main,
within a time prescribed by the said President and Commis-
sioners of North East. Where the aforesaid fixtures do not
exist, or of a nature which, in the judgment of the President
and Commissioners of North East, is unsatisfactory, im-
proper, or inadequate, satisfactory equipment shall be in-
stalled. All walls, cisterns, and other private containers for
the storage of water which are found by the President and
Commissioners of North East, to be polluted and a menace
to health and all cesspools and septic tanks, shall be aban-