1778 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 715

that corner lots may be averaged and assessed upon such
frontage as the Commission may deem reasonable and fair,
and that all lots in this class shall be assessed even though
a water main or sewer may not extend along the full length
of any boundary; and provided further that no land so
classified as agricultural by this Commission shall be assessed
a front foot benefit when said agricultural land has con-
structed through it or in front of it a sewer or water main,
until such time as the water or sewer connection is made,
and when so made and for every connection such land shall
become liable to a front foot assessment for such reasonable
frontage not exceeding three hundred (300) feet, or may be
determined by said Commission, and shall be immediately
assessed at the rate of assessment determined by said Com-
mission for agricultural land. Front foot benefit charges for
water supply and sewerage construction shall be as nearly
uniform as is reasonably practical for each class or sub-class
of property throughout each district for any one year and no
benefit charge, once levied, shall be increased; provided, how-
ever, that whenever the Commission acquires an existing
system other than a municipal system, the construction of
which has been added in whole or in part to the purchase
price of land or lots abutting upon said system and which
contribution the Commission has determined to be a factor in
the cost to the Commission of such system, the Commission
may, in its discretion, levy a front foot assessment less than
the uniform front foot assessment levied in the remainder of
the sanitary district in which said system is located. The
amount of the charge per front foot for each class of prop-
erty for both water mains and sewers may be reduced from
time to time by the Commission in its discretion, if costs and
conditions are deemed by it to justify such reduction. Said
benefit charge shall be paid annually by all properties located
as above specified, for a period of years co-extensive with the
period of maturity of the bonds out of the proceeds of which
such construction was done. The Commission shall at any
time permit a connection with a water main or sewer by the
property owner whose property does not abut on said water
main or sewer and who has not previously thereto paid a
benefit charge for the construction of said water main or
sewer, provided, said Commission shall classify said property
and determine a front foot charge to be paid by said property
owner as though his or her property abutted upon said water
main or sewer; and in the event of such connection being
made said property owner and said property as to all charges,
rates and benefits shall stand in every respect in the same
position as if the said property abutted upon a water main