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connections, both public and private, to condemn lands or other
property necessary in the construction or maintenance of such
sewerage system or systems and their appurtenances, and to
dispose of sewerage so collected by contract or otherwise, to
provide for the cost of such systems, and generally to do all
other and such things and pass such regulations as may reason-
ably be necessary and proper to exercise the power and effect
the objects herein specified, the words "Sewerage System" as
used in this and succeeding sections to be taken to embrace all
manner of methods for conducting and disposing of ordinary
sewage and surface drainage, including household sewage and
surface waters.

132M. Said Commissioners shall further have full power
and authority to provide by regulations, subject to approval by
the State Board of Health as aforesaid, for the taking of any
private property or property rights of any kind which may
reasonably be necessary for any of the purposes specified in
this act, including the acquisition of property or property rights
for the disposition of sewage, provided, however, that such
regulations shall contain appropriate provisions for notice to
the owner or owners of such property or rights, an opportunity
to be heard and the payment of compensation for property or
property rights so taken, and also for an appeal by such owner
to the Circuit Court for Baltimore County, with the right to a
jury trial on issue of fact involved in such taking; and said
commissioners shall also have full power and authority like-
wise to provide for ascertaining what amount of actual benefit
will accrue to the owner or possessors of any ground or improve-
ments within said county by reason of the construction or
enlargement of such sewerage system or systems, and to provide
for assessing and levying the cost of such work in whole or in
part upon the owners of property so benefited to the extent of
such benefit, and for collecting the same, such assessment to be
made only after notice, with an opportunity to be heard and the
right of appeal as aforesaid, and when so made, to be a lien
upon the property of the person so assessed until paid, and to
be recoverable as county taxes are.

132N. Said commissioners shall have full power and author-
ity to provide by regulation, subject to approval by the State
Board of Health as aforesaid, for the maintenance of such
sewerage or drainage system or systems when so constructed,
the cost of such maintenance to be met in whole or in part by a
special tax on the owners of property benefited thereby, or
otherwise, as said commissioners may deem just and proper
under the circumstances, and in such regulations may prescribe