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capital stock of any manufacturing company or enterprise desiring to
locate in said city, and as an inducement to the same to locate therein;
provided, that such contract to exempt the same shall be limited as to
time, and shall not exceed ten years.

FRANCHISES.

1922, ch. 96, sec. 66. 1924, ch. 272.

66. The Mayor and City Council of Cumberland may grant specific
franchises or rights in or relating to its highways, avenues, streets, lanes,
alleys and parks; provided, however, that no franchise of the city shall
be granted to any corporation or individual, unless notice of the same shall
have been first published for at least two weeks in two newspapers of the
City of Cumberland; and no franchise right or privilege in relation to any
highways, avenues, streets, alleys, lanes or parks, either on, above or
below the surface of the same, shall be granted by the Mayor and City
Council to any person or corporation for a longer period than fifty years.

SEWERS.

1922, ch. 96, sec. 67. 1924, ch. 88.

67. The said Mayor and City Council are authorized to acquire by
purchase from the owner or owners any land, real or leasehold estate, im-
proved or unimproved, right of way, easement, water right or water
course, within or beyond the limits of the City of Cumberland, which they
may conceive expedient or necessary to purchase and hold for the pur-
pose of building sewers or drains and disposal plants or for the purpose
of constructing and operating a general sewerage and drainage system
for said city or for the purpose of carrying out or exercising any of the
powers and privileges granted said Mayor and City Council by law,
and if the said Mayor and City Council cannot agree with said owner
or owners or if said owner or owners, or any of them be absent from the
State or unknown or without legal capacity to contract, by reason of
infancy, coverture, insanity or otherwise, it shall be lawful for the said
Mayor and City Council to secure by condemnation any such land, real
or leasehold estate, improved or unimproved, right of way, easement,
water right or water course which they may deem necessary for the pur-
pose of building or operating any sewer or sewers, or drain or drains,
and disposal plants or for a general sewerage or drainage system, or
for any of the public purposes for which said Mayor and City Coun-
cil are granted powers by law, in the same manner and by the same pro-
ceedings as are now provided for in condemnation by corporations under
Article 23, Section 331, etc., of the Code of Public General Laws of the
State of Maryland.