WM. PRESTON LANE, JR., GOVERNOR 289

able annually during the life of the bonds, and sufficient in
aggregate amount to pay any part or all of the interest on
the outstanding bonds and to provide for their retirement.
The Mayor and Council may provide for the extinguish-
ment by property owners of annual front foot benefit
charges upon such terms as they may deem wise, provided
any such arrangement shall provide properly for the neces-
sary payments on the outstanding bonds. The Mayor and
Council, for the purpose of establishing the front foot as-
sessments rates, may classify properties according to the
uses to which they are put and may change such classifi-
cations and the front foot assessment rates from year to
year, as may become necessary, but the rate for any one
year shall be uniform for all property so assessed within
the municipality. The Mayor and Council shall notify in
writing all assessed property owners as to the classifica-
tion of their properties and the amount of their assess-
ment, naming in said notice a time and place when and
where said owners will be heard. The classification of and
the benefit charges assessed against any property shall be
final, subject to revision only at said hearing. The Mayor
and Council in the case of corner lots, irregular shaped lots
and shallow lots, fronting on more than one street, and also
in the case of small acreage and agricultural property may
determine upon such lengths of frontage for assessment as
they may deem reasonable and fair. Front foot assess-
ment charges, as above specified, shall be a first lien on
property against which they are assessed, subject only to
prior State and County charges and upon complaint of the
Mayor and Council before any Justice of the Peace or the
Circuit Court for the County in which said land is situated
shall be enforced by a judgment and usual execution there-
on. Said benefit charges shall be in default after sixty days
from the date of levy and said levy shall bear interest at
the rate of one per cent. (1%) a month from and after the
time said levy is in default.

SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That for the purpose
of providing funds to pay the principal of and interest
on the bonds, issued pursuant to this Act, in whole or in
part, and for maintaining, repairing and operating the
sewerage system, and the sewerage disposal plant,, AND
THE WATER SUPPLY AND WATER DISTRIBUTION
SYSTEM, including overhead expense and proper depre-
ciation allowance, the Mayor and Council of North Beach
shall have full power and authority to make such service
rates as they may deem necessary, chargeable against all
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