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upon, then said sewer shall be so taken over by said Commission; and in
the event of any disagreement or dispute between the owner or owners of
property or properties or of private sewers, or their representatives, and
the said Sewerage Commission as to the location of any lateral sewer or
sewer intended for house connections, or the capacity, location or suitable-
ness of any private sewer, or the cost of constructing and laying a sewer
similar to any private sewer, then the matter shall be referred to a board
composed of the four city officials now constituting the Board of Public
Improvements of the City of Baltimore, under rules to be adopted by said
Board, and the decision of said Board as to any of said matters so referred
to said Board shall be final and binding on said Sewerage Commission
and the party or parties appealing; and forty days before the work of
construction of any lateral sewer or sewer intended for house connections
shall be begun, said Sewerage Commission shall give notice by publica-
tion in three or more of the daily newspapers of Baltimore City of the
general location of said sewer, and any property owner or other person
interested in the location of said sewer or in any private sewer intended
to be used or which might be used in connection with or instead of the
intended sewer, may, within ten days after the first publication of said
notice, apply to said Sewerage Commission for detailed information as to
the location and construction of said sewer, and as to what, if any, private
sewers are intended to be used, and said person may, within said ten days,
protest in writing to said Sewerage Commission against any part of the
proposed plan of said sewer, and thereupon said Sewerage Commission,
at some time within a period beginning ten days after said first publica-
tion and ending twenty days after said publication, shall make is deter-
mination in writing with reference to said protest, which determination
shall be open to public inspection; and any person who has thus protested,
or any other person interested in said determination may, within a period
beginning twenty days after said first publication and ending thirty days
after said first publication, appeal in writing to a board composed of the
four city officials, now constituting the Board of Public Improvements,
against said determination of said Sewerage Commission with reference
to said protest, and said Board so composed, within a period beginning
thirty days after said first publication and ending forty days after said
first publication, shall make its decision with reference to said protest,
which decision, as above mentioned, shall be final and binding upon said
Sewerage Commission and the party or parties appealing or protesting.*

*The Sewerage Commission was abolished by chapter 1 of the Acts of 1916. which
reacts as follows :

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the said
Sewerage Commissioners be relieved and discharged from any further duties in
relation to the Sewerage System of Baltimore City on February 1, 1916.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That all funds which may remain on said
date February 1, 1916. subject to the order of the said Sewerage Commission for
use for the purposes of the construction of the Sewerage System, shall be held by
the Comptroller of Baltimore City for the payment of any balances, debts and obli-
gations incurred for said purposes by said Sewerage Commission to the same extent
as if said Commission had continued in office.