JOHN WALTER SMITH, ESQ., GOVERNOR.
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requires technical knowledge and skill, which may be
employed without these requisites. Said commission shall
have power to pass such rules and regulations as may be
necessary for the construction and maintenance of said work,
and said commission shall from time to time, and as rapidly as
said sewerage system maybe available, require existing build-
ings and those hereinafter constructed to be connected with said
sewerage system. The said commission shall award all con-
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power to pass
rules.
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tracts to the lowest responsible bidders, which may be made
in the construction and maintenance of said sewerage system.
The Mayor and City Council of Baltimore shall furnish said
commission with necessary rooms and furniture. Vacancies
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Contracts to
lowest re -
sponsible
bidder.
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in said commission shall be filled by said commission, except
where a vacancy occurs by death, resignation or removal of
one or both of those appointed by the Mayor, subject to
the confirmation of the Second Branch of the City Council,
as hereinbefore provided, in which event such vacancies are
to be filled in the same manner as the original appointees
were made, and the members of said commission shall be
municipal officers and subject to removal by the Mayor, as
provided in the Acts of eighteen hundred and ninety-eight,
Chapter 123. Said commissioners shall not, under any cir-
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Vacancy on
Commision.
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cumstances, permit the crude sewerage from the City of Bal-
timore to empty into the Chesapeake Bay or its tributaries,
nor shall any of the affluent or resultants of said sewerage
be permitted to empty into said bay or its tributaries, until
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Crude Sewer-
age not to
enter bay.
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the same has been subjected to analysis by three expert
chemists of well recognized repute, to be chosen by the State
Board of Public Works, and said affluent or resultant by said
- chemist pronounced to be free from all impurities, which could
be injurious to the oyster or fish industries of this State. The
said State Board of Public Works shall publish the findings
of said chemist immediately after the same have been sub-
mitted to it by three insertions in all of the daily papers pub-
lished in Baltimore City, over the signatures of said chemists,
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Analysis of
sewerage.
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attested by their affidavits. Subsequent examinations shall,
from time to time, be made when in the judgment of said State
Board of Public Works the same shall be deemed necessary,
or when petitioned for by twenty citizens, who are registered
voters of said State and are personally interested in the oyster
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Report of
Analysis t o
be published.
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industries of the State, and when any subsequent examination:
is made it shall be in all respects the same as in that herein-
before provided for, and if, as a result of said subsequent
examination or examinations, any impurities detrimental to
the oyster or fish industries of this State shall be found to
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Protection for
oyster and
fish industry
from sewer-
age.
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