WM. PRESTON LANE, JR., GOVERNOR. 1779

or sewer. Said benefit charge shall be payable at the office
of the Commission immediately upon being levied, and shall
be overdue and in default after sixty (60) days from that day,
at which time the Commission may proceed to enforce pay-
ment thereof; and the said benefit charge and any judgment
or decree obtained as a result of default in payment thereof
shall bear interest at the rate of one-half of one percentum
(1//2%) per month from and after the time said benefit assess-
ment or other charges are in default. The annual benefit
assessment or other charges as above specified shall be a first
lien upon the property against which they are assessed until
paid, any statute of limitations to the contrary notwithstand-
ing, subject only to prior State and county taxes, and if any
property be sold for State and/or county taxes or both by the
Treasurer of said county; and if after sale there is a surplus
after all costs and expenses incident to such sale shall have
been paid, then the said Commission upon proper petition to
the Circuit Court for said county shall be allowed any bal-
ance from said surplus, and shall be a preferred lienor to the
extent of its lien; and for the purpose of giving notice to the
general public as to existing liens and charges against any
property within any sanitary district abutting upon any water
or sewer main, the said Commission shall keep a public record
of all names of ow^ners of property, locations of said prop-
erty, lot numbers when of record, and the amount of such
benefit charges, water service charges or such other charges
that may become liens from time to, time. Said records shall
be kept in the county seat of government and among the land
records of Allegany County, and the Clerk of the Circuit
Court for said county shall furnish such space as may be
necessary to keep and preserve such records, which, when
recorded in said public record, shall be legal notice of all
existing liens within any sanitary district. If any liens,
benefit assessments or other charges remain unpaid for sixty
(60) days after becoming due, they may be collected by an
action of assumpsit or by a bill in equity to enforce such
liens, and any judgment or decree obtained, where the de-
fendants have been served by subpoena, or in any other man-
ner provided by law, shall have the force and effect of a
judgment in personam; and the Commission may sue, or file
a bill in equity to enforce said liens against the owner of
record at the time said levy was made, or the owner of record
at the time said suit is filed or any owner of record between
said dates, and publication thereon shall be notice to all
persons having any interest in said property.

463-1. The Commission shall provide for each and every
property abutting upon a street or right-of-way in which