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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

tion 7 of Article u of the Constitution of Maryland. If

To redeem

issued pursuant to such approval, the Mayor and City Council

stock at its
maturity.

of Baltimore shall levy in each and every year upon all prop-

erty liable to taxation in the City of Baltimore a sum sufficient

to pay the interest accruing on said stock and to create a

sinking fund sufficient, with the aid of any premiums on the

sale thereof, to redeem said stock at its maturity.

SEC. 7. And be it enacted, That so often as any portion of

When sewer-

said sewerage system shall be in actual operation and in a con-

age system is
in operation.

dition to collect, transmit and dispose of domestic or house

sewage, the said commission shall notify the Commissioner

of Health of the said City of Baltimore of that fact and impart

to him the metes and bounds of said portion of said sewerage

system in such state of preparedness, and it shall thereupon

become his duty to require all owners of property within

such metes and bounds, and shall become the duty of all such

owners at their own cost and expense to forthwith connect their

respective house drains at their respective building lines with

said sewerage system, and to forthwith clean out and fill up

their respective privy sinks, wells, cesspools or other sewerage

or drainage receptacles, and to abandon the use of their exist-

ing arrangements of every sort for the disposal of sewage

or dfainage under the directions and control of said Commis-

sioner of Health; and full power is hereby conferred upon the

Mayor and City Council of Baltimore to pass any ordinance

or ordinances and provide for any remedial proceedings or

processes or for any penalty or penalties that may be necessary,

in its judgment, to enable said Commissioner of Health to

properly and effectively comply with the obligations or any of

the obligations hereinbefore imposed upon him by this section

Drainage
connections.

of this Act, and to keep the drainage connections between said

respective building lines and said sewerage system free from

obstruction and in good working order; and to do any and

all things reasonably necessary to be done to compel said

owners of said property to place and maintain the same in re-

lations of full co-operation with said sewerage system.

SEC. 8. And be it enacted, That while the work authorized

by this Act is being done by said commission the respective

Duties and
powers of cer-

duties and powers of the City Engineer and Commissioner

tain officers.

of Street Cleaning and other city officials in their relations to

the existing sewers and drains of the City of Baltimore shall,

subject to the duties and powers hereby conferred upon said

commission, continue as at present ; and said commission 'shall

be authorize! as its work progresses to turn over from time to