WM. PRESTON LANE, JR., GOVERNOR. 1443

under the authority of this Act, and if such funds, together
with any funds which may be received under Section 6 of this
Act, are not sufficient for this purpose, then the Mayor and
Council shall levy the taxes provided by Section 7 of this Act.
Said assessments shall be payable 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 extinguishment 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 necessary payments on the outstanding bonds. The
Mayor and Council, for the purpose of establishing the front
foot assessment rates, may classify properties according to
the uses to which they are put and may change such classifica-
tions 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 municipal-
ity. The Mayor and Council shall notify in writing all as-
sessed property owners as to the classification of their proper-
ties and the amount of their assessment, 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 deem reasonable and fair.
Front foot assessment 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 situ-
ated shall be enforced by a judgment and usual execution
thereon. 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 water and sewer-
age system, and the sewerage disposal plant, including over-
head expense and proper depreciation allowance, the Mayor
and Council of North Beach shall have full power and author-
ity to make such service rates as they may deem necessary,