1456 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 601

proved, as the best interest of the town may require, and to
lay storm sewers in said town, and to pay the cost of all such
work, and assess said cost, or any part thereof, against the
abutting property which they shall find to be specially bene-
fited thereby according to the linear frontage of said prop-
erty and they shall also provide by ordinance the time and
terms upon which payment of said assessment for such work
and improvement shall be charged upon the deferred pay-
ments; assessments so levied as aforesaid shall be a lien
upon the property against which they are charged superior
to all other liens from the date of the notice of such assess-
ments, and shall be collected as a tax in a manner similar
to other taxes.

In the event that provision shall be made for the payment
of the assessments aforesaid in installments when the same
shall become due, the whole amount thereof, and of such as-
sessment shall immediately become due and payable. All
assessments levied hereunder whenever the same shall become
overdue according to the terms of the ordinance providing
therefor, or by reason of the nonpayment of any installment
thereof, may be collected by action in equity, or in the same
manner as general taxes due said town or now or may here-
after be collected under the provisions of the charter of said
town, and any sale made for the non-payment of such assess-
ment, and any deed made pursuant to such sale shall be en-
titled to all the presumptions as to validity that now or may
hereafter attach to sales and deeds made for default in pay-
ment of general taxes due said town; and when any real
property assessed as herein provided for shall become liable
to sale for any other assessment of tax whatsoever, then the
assessments levied under this section shall become immedi-
ately due and payable and the property against which they
are levied may be sold therefor, together with accrued inter-
est thereon and costs to day of sale if any sale made here-
under shall be set aside for failure to comply with the terms
hereof, that fact shall not bar the right of said town to col-
lect said assessment and enforce the lien thereof by equitable
suit as aforesaid.

473-C. To effectuate the construction and/or reconstruc-
tion, of roadways, alleys, curbs, sidewalks, gutters and storm
water sewers within the Town of District Heights, the Dis-
trict Heights Commission are hereby authorized and empow-
ered to borrow from time to time, on the credit of the town,
a sum or sums of money which shall not, however, exceed in
amount at any one time the total sum of eight per centum of
the assessed valuation of all real property in the town ap-
pearing on the assessment books of Prince George's County,