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Ir`Ilv"[`Y-ElGH’l` H CONGRESS. Sess. ll. Ch. 1-117 . 1904. 245 Act of Congress, or of the late legislative assembly of the District of Columbia, shall not be again assessed for water mains: Provided, That HAs,lEl°wj;‘,;° *°’ Wd assessments for water mains or service sewers shall not be levied under ° this Act against lots or parcels of land not more than one hundred feet in depth which have theretofore been assessed by the linear front feet by authority of any Act of Congress or of the late corporation of Georgetown, and in any assessment or reassessment levied under the provisions of this Act credit shall be allowed for any amount which 1nay have been heretofore paid upon any water main or service sewer assessment levied against the same rtion of the area of any lot or parcel of land: Provided further, That when the Commissioners of 0n·‘},E"},§‘{,‘;g£€j’,§“’ the District of Columbia shall deem it advantageous to lay water ` mains or service sewers on each side of any street, avenue, road, or alley assessments shall be levied at the rate, within the time and in the manner in this section provided for, against the lots abutting the side of the street, avenue, road, or alley in which the water main or service sewer is laid. Sec. 3. That the assessor of the District of Columbia shall give N°"°° °f l°"y· notices as herein provided of the levyin of assessments for water mains and service sewers. Assessments shtll be levied within sixty days after the completion of the main or service sewer, and the owner or owners affected by such assessments shall be notified that the same have been levied by a notice which shall be served upon the owner of the lot or parcel of land if he or she be a resident of the District of Columbia, and his or her residence known. If the owner be a nonresident or his or her residence be unknown, the notice shall be _ served on his or her agent or tenant. The service of such notice, §§’,§’0$*“°“°°· where the owner or his or her agent or tenant resides in the District of Coiiilmbia, shall be personal or by leaving the same with some r- son cifsuitable age, either in member of his family or in his empldy, at theresidence or place of business of such owner, ent, or tenant; and return of such service, stating the manner theredg shall be made in writing under oath and tiled in the office of the assessor of the Dis- _ trict of Columbia. If there be no agent or tenant known to said "·‘“'°"“““‘°“'· assessor, and the owner or owners be not residents of the District of Columbia, or if the owner be a resident of the District of Columbia and can not be found therein, and no person of suitable age as aforesaid can be found at his or her residence or place of business, notice shall be given by advertisement once a week for three successive weeks in some daily newspaper published in said District, and in said publication of said notice each several piece of property shall be escribed in a separate paragraph, and the cost of such advertisement shall be added to the amount of said assessment and collected in the same manner that said assessment is collected. Sec. 4. That assessments for water mains and service sewers shall m§:g’s¤¤¤¤* 0* ¤—‘*°¤* be yable in three equal installments, the first of which shall be due ` andpapayable without interest within thirty days from date of service of notice or of the last publication of notice as the case may be, the second within one year, and the third within two years from the date of assessment, and interest at the rate of six per centum per annum shall be charged on all amounts which shall remain unpaid at the expiration of thirty days from the date of service of notice or last publication as the case may be; but the owner of the property assessed may. at his option, at any time after the levying of suc assessment, pay the same in full; and the discount heretofore allowed for pay- ment of assessments for water mains within thirty days from date of service of notice of assessments shall not be allowed hereafter: Pro- Qepféenta {vided, That if any installment of any assessment for water main or q ` service sewer levied under the provisions of this Act shall not be paid when due and payable the property against which said assessment was