J. MILLARD TAWES, GOVERNOR                           1079

day labor, materials and equipment, an amount not exceeding Five
Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00) 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.

657. For the purpose of paying the interest and principal of the
bonds issued in the name of a District by any said Commission as in
this sub-title provided for the water [supply,] or 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, payable to such District, not less
than the actual cost thereof, for connection with said water [supply,]
and sewerage [and drainage] system so to be constructed, purchased
or established as aforesaid, and to fix an annual assessment, payable
to such Districts, on all properties, improved or unimproved, binding
upon a street, road, lane, alley or right-of-way in which a water main
[,] or sewer [or drain] has been built. The said annual assessment
shall be made upon the front foot basis, and the first payment shall
be collected during the year in which the construction is completed on
the water [supply,] or 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 binding 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: Agricultural,
small acreage, industrial or business, and sub-division property, 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] any 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 of the year in which the project was completed upon
all property in said 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 or 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 con-
struction 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 [no] on more than one side,
unless said lot abuts upon two parallel streets, that corner lots may