1358 ARTICLE 4.

to, and at the time of the passage of this Act, shall apply to a'ny portion
of the territory annexed by this Act to Baltimore City; but nothing herein
contained shall be construed to affect the power of the Mayor and City
Council of Baltimore to pass ordinances under the police power, or any
other .power in the Charter, affecting the territory and the inhabitants
thereof annexed by this Act to Baltimore City, to the same extent as they
may pass such ordinances affecting the territory and the inhabitants of
Baltimore City as it existed prior to the passage of this Act.

1918, ch. 82, sec. 16.

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 of Baltimore
City .shall be altered, amended or repealed by any provision of this Act.

1918, ch. 82. sec. 17.

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 inhabitants of the
territory annexed by this Act to Baltimore City, shall be entitled to con-
tinue to supply with water such territory as. they may be actually supply-
ing 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 a.s the Mayor and City Council of
Baltimore may extend the Baltimore City water service into such terri-
tory, or any part thereof. Before the Mayor and City Council of Balti-
more shall extend the Baltimore City water service into any territory
occupied by any existing water company, the Mayor and City Council of
Baltimore, shall acquire, either by purchase or condemnation, the prop-
erty of such water company in the territory in which the Baltimore City
water service is to be so extended, excepting, however, lines of any water
company used for supplying persons living outside of the limits of Balti-
more 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 privilege when-
ever 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 Baltimore 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 expiration of its existing right to main-
tain said pipes. And the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore shall grant
to every such water company, upon payment of the usual franchise or