1264 ARTICLE 4.

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 11 of the Constitution of Maryland. If issued pur-
suant to such approval, the Commissioners of Finance of the city shall
issue said bonds or stock, payable at such time or times, not exceeding
forty years, and at such rate of interest as the City Council may deter-
mine, not exceeding 5 per cent. Said city may make payable annually a
proportion of the principal of said bonds or certificates, and provide that
said stock or bonds may be issued in series, falling due at stated periods:
in which event the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore shall annually
raise, by taxation, the amount required to meet such interest and the
proportion of the principal then payable. The sinking funds of any loans
of said city may be invested in said bonds or certificates.
See notes to Section 824N.

1914, ch. 323, sec. 2.

824N. That the Sewerage Commission shall locate its sewers intended
for house connections in the rear of said houses whenever practicable
and whenever said houses are not already otherwise connected with sew-
ers, but said Sewerage Commission may locate any of said sewers in the
front of said houses whenever the cost to the owners of the majority of
the houses to be connected with said sewers in any block will be less if
laid in front of said houses than if laid in the rear of said houses, and
it shall be the duty of the Sewerage Commission to use private sewers
whenever suitable and whenever any of said sewers is suitable and of
sufficient capacity both to drain the houses connected with each sewer and
such other houses as may be built abutting on that part of the street, alley
or way in or near which said sewer is located, then the said Commission
shall acquire, and it is hereby directed to acquire said sewer, if the same
can be obtained at a sum not exceeding fifty per cent, of what would be
the cost of constructing and laying a sewer of the same kind in the same
place, and if the same cannot be obtained, then the said Commission shall
not be required to acquire said sewer, but said Commission may either
build another sewer to take the place of said private sewer, or, in its dis-
cretion, may acquire said sewer for a sum not exceeding fifty per cent,
of said cost, or, in its discretion, may acquire said private sewer by con-
demnation in the method provided by said Chapter 349 of the Acts of
1904; provided, however, that when more than one private sewer shall
exist in the same part of any street, alley or other way, then the said
Commission shall be required to acquire, in the manner and upon the
terms hereinbefore set forth, only that private sewer which in the opinion
of said Commission will be best suited for said sewerage system, and pro-
vided that whenever any private sewer has been built since the passage
of said Chapter 349 of the Acts of 1904, or shall hereafter be built upon
any agreement with the Sewerage Commission, that said sewer shall there-
after be taken over by said Commission at a price or on terms agreed