Theodore R. McKeldin, Governor                   1517

the work or any part of it or may do any part or all of the work by
day labor; provided that at any time the Commission may, in its
discretion, expend by day labor for construction work an amount
not exceeding One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00) without advertising
or receiving bids. All such contracts shall be protected by such bonds,
penalties and conditions as the Commission may require, all of
which shall be enforced in any court having jurisdiction.

182. For the purpose of paying the interest and principal of the
bonds issued by said Commission as in this sub-title provided for
the water supply, sewerage or drainage systems to be constructed,
purchased or established under this sub-title, the said Commission is
hereby empowered to establish a proper and reasonable charge for
connection with said water supply, sewerage and drainage system so
to be constructed, purchased or established as aforesaid, and to fix
an annual assessment on all properties, improved or unimproved,
binding upon a street, road, lane, alley or right-of-way in which a
water main, sewer or drain has been built. The said annual assess-
ment shall be made upon the front foot basis, and the first payment
shall be collected during the year which the construction is com-
pleted on the water supply, sewerage or drainage systems, or in
which the systems are purchased or acquired. The said Commission
for the purpose of assessing benefits shall divide all properties bind-
ing upon a street, road, lane, alley or right-of-way, in which a water
pipe or sanitary sewer is to be laid, into four classes, namely: Agri-
cultural, small acreage, industrial or business, and sub-division prop-
erty, and the Commission may sub-divide each of said classes in such
manner as it may deem to be in the public interest. Whenever any
water supply or sewerage project in said sanitary district or sani-
tary districts shall have been completed by March 31st, in any one
year, regardless of when said construction was commenced, then
the said Commission shall fix and levy a benefit charge as of the
first day of January in which the project was completed upon all
property in mid sanitary district abutting upon said water main or
sewer, in accordance with the classification or sub-division thereof,
and shall in writing, notify all owners of said properties into which
class and sub-division their respective properties fall and the charge
determined upon, naming also in said notice a time and place, when
and at which time said owner will be heard. Such notice may be
mailed to the last known address of the owner, or served in person
upon any adult occupying the premises or in case of a vacant or
unimproved property posted upon the premises. The classification of
and the benefit assessed against any property as made by the Com-
mission shall be final, subject only to revision at said hearing. The
Commission may change the classification of property from time to
time as said properties change in the uses to which they are put.
Said benefits shall be levied for both water supply and sewerage
construction and shall be based, for each class of property upon the
number of front feet abutting upon the street, lane, road, alley or
right-of-way in which the water pipe or sewer is placed; provided,
however, that in the case of any irregular shaped lot abutting upon
a road, street, lane, alley or right-of-way in which there is or is
being constructed a water main or sewer at any point, said lot shall
be assessed for such frontage as the Commission may determine
to be reasonable and fair; and provided further that no lot in a sub-
division property shall be assessed on more than one side, unless
said lot abuts upon two parallel streets, that corner lots may be