330 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 195

izing the Mayor and Council of Easton to erect sanitary
toilets and connect them with the sewerage system of the
Town of Easton on improved properties in said Town
lacking such facilities after due notice to the owners
thereof and providing for the assessment of the costs
of such improvements and making them a lien against
the property.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Sections 240A and 240B be added to Ar-
ticle 21 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland
(1930) title "Talbot County", sub-title "Easton", to read
as follows:

240A. The Mayor and Council of Easton shall by Or-
dinance provide and pay for the erection of a sanitary toilet
connected to the sewerage system of the Town of Easton
on any improved property within said Town not so pro-
vided with such toilet or sewerage connection, after due
notice has been given to the owner of such property by the
Mayor and Council of Easton in writing, and said owner
has not within thirty days of such notice made proper
toilet connection with the sewerage system of the town.

240B. The Mayor and Council of Easton is hereby
authorized and empowered to levy and impose upon such
property an assessment equal to the cost of such erection
and connection and such assessment shall be a lien upon
the property and shall be collected by the Town Clerk as
other taxes are now collected. The Mayor and Council
of Easton is hereby authorized, in its discretion, to pro-
vide by ordinance for the payment of such assessments in
installments, any deferred payments to bear interest from
such time as said ordinance may provide.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall
take effect June 1, 1939.

Approved May 3, 1939.

CHAPTER 195.
(Senate Bill 283)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Section
43 of Article 15 of the Code of Public Local Laws of
Maryland (1930 Edition), title "Kent County", sub-title