HERBERT R. O'CONOR, GOVERNOR. 1249

Nothing herein contained shall in any manner be con-
strued as affecting the lien of any other public taxes,
charges or assessments for State and/or County purposes
of any kind or nature whatsoever levied or charged against
any property. The lien herein provided for shall have and
is Hereby declared always to have had priority of payment
from the proceeds of the sale of any property chargeable
therewith, subject only to the preference of taxes provided
by Section 150 of Article 81 of the Annotated Code of
Maryland (1939 Edition). All such assessments and
charges, including those past due and in arrears as well as
those due and becoming due in the future, excepting water
service charges, which shall be collected as heretofore spe-
cified in Section 332, shall be due, if payable annually, on
the first day of January in each and every year and shall
be collected by the treasurer of Baltimore County in the
same manner and at the same time as State and County
taxes are collected. In addition to, but not in substitution
of the aforesaid remedies, whenever the Commissioners
may deem it necessary and advisable, they are empowered
by written order to authorize and direct the treasurer of
Baltimore County to proceed in his own name as such
treasurer to enforce the lien of Metropolitan District
assessments and charges on any particular property speci-
fied in such order, by a bill in equity or to collect said assess-
ments and charges by an action of assumpsit or by both
a bill in equity and a suit at law as aforesaid. In the event
any such annual assessment or charge be not paid when
due, interest thereon, beginning on the first day of the
following June, shall be added at the rate of one-half of
1% per month until paid. The fiscal year of the Metropoli-
tan District shall correspond with the calendar year and
for the purpose of effecting such change the Commission-
ers shall pro rate all assessments and charges which may
have become due and payable during the year 1937 had
this Act not been passed, so that a just proportion of the
same shall become due and payable on January 1, 1938, and
on or prior to the first day of January in each and every
year, beginning with the year 1938, said Commissioners
shall deliver to the treasurer of Baltimore County a state-
ment showing the Metropolitan District assessments and
charges due and payable, including such as may be in
arrears, identifying, with respect to each of said assess-
ments and charges, the properties on which the same are
liens. Such statement shall be made by appropriate nota-
tion on the assessment or tax ledgers of the Commission-
ers and on the tax rolls customarily delivered to the treas-

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