ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR.                  799

pipe or sewer is placed; provided, however, that in the case
of any irregular shaped lot abutting upon a road, street, lane,
alley or right-of-way in which there is or is being constructed
a water main or sewer at any point, said lot shall be assessed
for such frontage as the Commission may determine to be
reasonable and fair; and provided further that no lot in a
subdivision property shall be assessed on more than one side,
unless said lot abuts upon two parallel streets, that corner lots
and water front lots may be averaged and assessed upon such
frontage as the Commission may deem reasonable and fair,
and that all lots in this class shall be assessed even though a
water main or sewer may not extend along the full length of
any boundary; and provided further, that no land so classified
as agricultural by this Commission shall be assessed a front
foot benefit when said agricultural land has constructed
through it or in front of it a sewer or water main, until such
time as the water or sewer connection is made, and when so-
made and for every connection such land shall become liable
to a front foot assessment for such reasonable frontage not
exceeding three hundred feet, as may be determined by said
Commission, and shall be immediately assessed at the rate of
assessment determined by said Commission for agricultural
land. Front foot benefit charges for water supply and sewer-
age construction shall be as nearly uniform as is reasonably
practical for each class or sub-class of property throughout
each sanitary district for any one year and no benefit charge
once levied, shall be increased; provided, however, that when-
ever the Commission acquires an existing system other than
a municipal system, the construction of which has been added
in whole or in part to the purchase price of land or lots
abutting upon said system and which contribution the Com-
mission has determined to be a factor in the cost to the Com-
mission of such system, the Commission may, in its discretion,
levy a front foot assessment less than the uniform front foot
assessment levied in the remainder of the district in which said
system is located. The amount of the charge per front foot
for each class of property for both water main and sewer may
be reduced from time to time by the Commission in its dis-
cretion, if costs and conditions are deemed by it to justify
such reduction. Said benefit charge shall be paid annually
by all properties located as above specified, for a period of
years co-extensive with the period of maturity of the bonds
out of the proceeds of which such construction was done. The