516 LAWS OF MARYLAND [CH. 277

ceeding to assess such benefits it shall first notify the
owners of real property in such Assessment District that
it proposes to make an assessment of benefit against their
real property for such erosion prevention works, and that
upon a day certain to be named therein a hearing will be
granted such owners at a place designated therein. Said
notice of the proposed assessment, as far as practicable,
shall be mailed to each property owner in said Assessment
District by placing the same in an envelope addressed to
his last known address and depositing the same, postpaid,
in a United States Post Office, and by publication thereof
once a week for two successive weeks in a newspaper of
general circulation published in the County.

(b) After said hearing has been granted, said Commis-
sioners, acting as such District Council, shall determine the
benefits accruing to each of the lots or parcels of land in
said Assessment District from the construction of said
erosion prevention works and shall fix and levy a benefit
charge upon each lot or parcel of land in said Assessment
District to the extent it is benefited by the construction of
said erosion prevention works, or part thereof. Said benefit
charge shall be a lien upon the real property against which
it is assessed and shall be paid annually as county taxes
are required to be paid, by all such lots or parcels of land
in such district for a period of years co-extensive with the
period of maturity of the notes, certificates of indebted-
ness or bonds out of the proceeds of which such erosion
prevention work was done.

161. (a) For the purpose of providing additional funds
to pay the semi-annual interest on such notes, certificates
of indebtedness or bonds, and the principal thereof, of each
of said districts, when and as they mature, and providing
all the funds necessary to pay the costs and expenses of
each district to carry into effect the provisions^ of this sub-
title and the entire cost of repairing and keeping in repair
in each district the erosion prevention works constructed
therein, the County Commissioners of the County, acting
as District Council for each of such districts, shall annually
levy against all the assessable property in each district so
improved, a tax which, with the money collected from the
benefit charges, will be sufficient to meet the interest on
said notes, certificates of indebtedness or bonds as it
becomes due, the principal thereof when and as they
mature, and to pay the entire cost of all necessary expenses
of each district to carry into effect the provisions of this
sub-title and the entire cost of repairing and keeping in
repair the erosion prevention works constructed in each