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hibit the construction or maintenance of privy sinks, cesspools or other
deposits of filth within the said corporate limits.

1916, ch. 680, sec. 61.

54. The said Commissioners of Aberdeen are authorized to supply the
said town and the inhabitants with pure water, and for that purpose shall
have full and ample power to acquire, possess, own and use all such lands,
water rights and other property as may be necessary and requisite for
said purpose, and shall also have power to lay pipes and construct such
other works as shall be necessary and suitable to accomplish and carry
out said purpose of supplying said town with pure water.

1916, ch. 680, sec. 62.

55. If the said The Commissioners of Aberdeen cannot agree with the
owner or owners of any land or water rights which may be necessary to
or for the proper construction or maintenance of its works, and plant
required to supply said town with pure water, or if such owner or owners
or any of them be a feme covert without power to contract, in relation to
said property or water rights, or shall be under age or non compos mentis
or any other legal disability, or be absent from Harford County when the
said land or water rights may be wanted, the said Town Commissioners
of Aberdeen may proceed to condemn and acquire the same in the manner
provided for in Article 23 of the Code of Public General Laws of Mary-
land for the condemnation of lands for public use.

SEWERS.*

1920, ch. 247, sec. 5.

56. The authority conferred by this Act, authorizing the Commission-
ers of Aberdeen to borrow a sum not to exceed $100,000 in the manner
set forth in the four preceding sections, is granted in excess of the author-
ity heretofore given said Commissioners, and the money obtained from
the issuance of said bonds shall be used to provide for the construction
and completion of a sewerage system and plant and to acquire any and all
property necessary therefor, to take up and retire the water bonds due
and payable March 1, 1922, and to repay the money heretofore or here-
after procured for improvements to the walks, water, streets, lights and
health of the said town of Aberdeen, and the Commissioners of Aberdeen
may levy in each and every year, upon all property liable to taxation in
the town of Aberdeen, a tax not exceeding twenty-five cents (25c) on the
$100 worth of assessable property, in addition to the rate of tax hereto-
fore authorized. "Or the said Commissioners of Aberdeen in their dis-
cretion are hereby authorized and empowered, for the purpose of meet-
ing the interest and sinking fund charge on said issue of bonds, and for
maintaining, repairing and operating said sewerage system, including

*The first four sections, ch. 247, 1920, provided for submitting the proposed bond
issue to the voters. The Act was approved at town election Aug. 31, 1920.