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ANNEXATION ACT. 781
SEC. 16. And be it further enacted, That no law prohibiting the
sale of liquor in any part of the territory annexed by this Act to Balti-
more City shall be altered, amended or repealed by any provision of
this Act.
SEC. 17. And be it further enacted, That any and every company
or corporation which at the time of the passage of this Act, shall be
actually engaged in the business of supplying water to any of the inhab-
itants of the territory annexed by this Act to Baltimore City, shall be
entitled to continue to supply with water such territory as they may
be actually supplying at the time of the passage of this Act, and such
additional territory as they may be permitted to supply in pursuance
of this section, after the passage of this Act, until such time as the
Mayor and City Council of Baltimore may extend the Baltimore City
water service into such territory, or any part thereof. Before the
Mayor and City Council of Baltimore shall extend the Baltimore City
water service into any territory occupied by any existing water com-
pany, the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, shall acquire, either
by purchase or condemnation, the property of such water company in
the territory into which the Baltimore City water service is to be so«
extended, excepting, however, lines of any water company used for sup-
plying persons living outside of the limits of Baltimore City as fixed
by this Act. No such water company shall be entitled to extend its
mains or service into any new territory after the passage of this act
without applying to, and obtaining from, the Board of Estimates of
Baltimore City the privilege of so extending its pipes and service.
But the Board of Estimates of Baltimore City shall grant such privi-
lege whenever applied for, upon the usual terms for granting minor
privileges in the public highways of the City, and at rates not greater
than the usual rates charged for laying other pipes in such highways,
unless at the time such application is made the Water Board of Balti-
more City is ready promptly to extend the Baltimore City water service
into the territory so applied for by such water company. Every such
water company shall be entitled to maintain, without any franchise or
minor privilege charge, its existing pipes now situate in any portion
of the territory annexed by this Act to Baltimore City, until the expira-
rion of its existing right to maintain said pipes. And the Mayor and
City Council of Baltimore shall grant to every such water company,
upon payment of the usual franchise or minor privilege charge, any
franchise or minor privileges which may be applied for to lay enlarged
or additional pipes through any of the public highways within the limits
of Baltimore City, as established by this Act, which may be necessary
for supplying customers outside of said limits. Any company or cor-
poration owning or operating any sewage disposal plant and sewer
pipes connected therewith within the territory annexed by this Act to
Baltimore City, shall be entitled to continue such service until such
time as the Baltimore City Sewerage System may be extended into the
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