1294:                         LAWS OF MARYLAND.                , [CH. 518

vided, however, that where the same party is assessed in any
such proceedings for benefits and also awarded damages, the
damages shall be deducted from the benefits to the extent of
the damages, and the provision of this section as to pay-
ing the benefits in installments shall apply only to the excess
of the benefits over the damages. The Commissioners, in their
final return, shall state whether or not benefits are to be pay-
able in installments, and if so in what installments.

181. If no appeal shall have been prayed, then, within
ten days after the time hereinbefore limited therefor, or after
the return of the decision upon any appeal shall have been
made to the said Commissioners, their return shall be trans-
ferred to the City Collector. No benefits assessed under the
provisions hereof shall be due or collectible until after the
physical work involved in any such opening, straightening,
widening, extending, closing or grading of any street, square,
lane or alley in respect to which benefits have been assessed is
completed, and the City Collector shall, take no further action
until receipt of written notice from the Board of Estimates
advising that such physical work has been actually completed.
Within ten days of the receipt of such notice the said Collector
shall notify the parties assessed for benefits of the date upon
which the work was actually completed and advise them by
means of bills specifying the several sums so assessed and the
installments thereof due and payable and warning them that
if the same be not paid within ninety days, from the date of the
completion of the work as specified in Section 177A of this
Charter, or within the installment periods herein provided for,
as the case may be, he will proceed to sell the specific pieces or
parts of property on which said unpaid sum or sums of money
shall have been assessed, in the manner and after having given
the notice directed by this Charter. Thereafter, as such in-
stallments become due, the Collector shall give the same notice;
if any installment be not paid, and the Collector shall proceed
to sell, under Section 182 of this Charter, the right of the
party assessed, to pay the remainder of said assessment in
installments, shall be forfeited and the Collector shall collect
from the proceeds of said sale the entire amount of the assess-
ment not theretofore paid, with interest at six per cent, to the
date of such collection.

185. All sums of money assessed by the Commissioners
aforesaid, upon property deemed by them to be benefited, shall