Payment of special levy.
Section 54
SEC. 54. Payment of special levy.—All sums due from any landowner or owners as payment of special levy shall be payable to the provincial or city treasurer or his deputy in the same manner as the annual ordinary tax levied upon real property, in accordance with the provisions of the preceding sections, shall be subject to the same penalties for delinquency and be enforced by the same means as said annual ordinary tax; and all said sums together with any of said penalties shall, from the dates on which they were assessed, constitute special liens upon the land concerned and shall have preference over other liens there may be on said lands with the sole exception of the lien for non-payment of the ordinary real property tax.