1258 ARTICLE 4.

City Register, and to be placed to the credit of a fund to be known as
the "New Sewerage System Fund," which shall be exclusively applicable
to the cost of the work authorized by this Act, and shall be chargeable
with no other items of cost or expense whatever. Appropriations for the
cost of said work, based upon the estimates of said commission, shall be
annually included by the Board of Estimates in the usual way in the
Ordinance of Estimates, and upon the written requisitions, supported
by proper vouchers of the chairman of said commission, or of the chair-
man pro tempore of said commission countersigned by the secretary of said
com mission, or by the secretary pro tempore, of said commission, either of
which officers the said commission is hereby authorized to appoint by vote
or resolution in the event of the absence, sickness or other disability for
the time being of its chairman or secretary, respectively, the Comptroller
shall draw his warrants upon the City Register, payable out of such ap-
propriations from said special fund for the amounts of all items of cost
or expense properly chargeable upon said special fund. But said stock
shall not be issued, in whole or in part, unless the ordinance of the Mayor
and City Council of Baltimore providing for the issuance thereof shall
be submitted to the legal voters of the City of Baltimore at such time
and place as may be fixed by said ordinance, and be approved by a majority
of the votes cast at such time and place as required by section 7 of Article
XI of the Constitution of Maryland. If issued pursuant to such approval,
the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore shall levy in each and every
year upon all property liable to taxation in the City of Baltimore a sum
sufficient to pay the interest accruing on said stock and to create a sink-
ing fund sufficient, with the aid of any premiums on the sale thereof, to
redeem said stock at its maturity.
See notes to Section 824N.

1904, ch. 349, sec. 7.

824G. So often as any portion of said sewerage system shall be in.
actual operation and in condition to collect, transmit and dispose of do-
mestic 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 sew-
erage 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 existing arrangements of every sort for the dis-
posal of sewage or drainage under the directions and control of said Com-
missioner 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 Commis-