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LAWS OF MARYLAND.
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Sewerage Ena-
bling Act.
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CHAPTER 19.
AN ACT creating a Sewerage Commission for Baltimore City,
and authorizing the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore
to issue the stock of said corporation to an amount not
exceeding twelve million ($12,000,000) dollars, for the pur-
pose of providing, constructing and maintaining a public
sewerage system; to provide for the collection and disposal
of the sewerage of said city, and the inhabitants thereof,
and to authorize the submission of an ordinance for that
purpose to the legal voters of said city.
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Sewerage
Commission.
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SECTION1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Thomas G. Hayes, Wallace Stebbins, Benjamin F.
Fendall, Alfred M. Quick and Charles B. Phelps, Jr., and
two members to be appointed by the Mayor of Baltimore,
subject to the confirmation of a majority of all the members'
elected to the Second Branch of the City Council of Balti-
more, be and are hereby constituted a commission to be known
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How paid.
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as the Sewerage Commission for Baltimore City. Said com-
mission to serve without pay, unless otherwise determined by
the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore. That the Mayor
shall be ex-officio a member and the president of the said
commission, and the said commission shall elect one of its num-
ber secretary of said commission. The said commission shall
forthwith adopt and construct such a sewerage system for Balti-
more City, and the inhabitants thereof, as said commission
may deem best adapted and suited for said sewerage service.
The said commission shall have all the power which may
be necessary to execute said work. The said commission
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Sewerage
Commission
has power of
eminent do-
main.
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are hereby empowered to exercise the power of eminent
domain, in order to condemn any land or interest in or build-
ing in the construction, or maintenance of said sewerage system
in the mode provided for by the General Laws of this State
relative to condemnation of lands. The said commission shall
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What labor
may or may
not b e re-
moved.
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appoint and remove at pleasure the entire force of employees
employed by it, but not the employees of any contractor which
may be required to construct and maintain said sewerage
system, and all work done in the construction and maintenance
of said sewerage system shall be by day laborers, who shall
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Laborers must
be voters. Ex-
ceptions.
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be registered voters of said city or of the counties of this
State, .whether employed directly by said Sewerage Commis-
sion or by any contractor under it, except such labor as
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