MONTGOMERY COUNTY. 3G11

individual, corporation or municipality, provided, however, that the price
paid shall not exceed a sum in the same proportion to the cost of such sys-
tem or part thereof as the area within the property of said individual,
corporation or municipality contributing to such system or part thereof
bears to the entire area in the sewerage district or area that will contribute
to the said system or part thereof, through its incorporation with the
County system. In case of failure to agree as to price the system or parts
thereof may be acquired by condemnation proceedings under the general
laws of the State. No part of the cost of said system, or parts thereof, so
acquired, shall be charged by the Commission against the taxpayers within
the limits of the property of said individual, corporation, or municipality.
The said Commission may require the system or parts thereof of said
individual, corporation, or municipality, to be connected to the County
system, and shall prescribe the annual charge or tax to be paid for such
connection, which sum shall be applied toward the payment of the interest
and principal of sewerage and drainage bonds issued for the construction
of connecting sewers. The said Commission shall also fix a maintenance
tax or rental to be charged against all individuals, thereby admitted to
use the County system. Before any existing systems or parts thereof are
connected with the County system, the owners of said systems or parts
thereof shall be required to make such changes in or repairs to them as
the said Commission may deem necessary to put them in proper shape for
connection.

1914, ch. 627, sec. 468-I.

886. If the return of the Board of Supervisors of Election, to the
Board of County Commissioners, shows a majority of votes in favor of
said bond issue then the County Commissioners shall issue said bonds
and all other bonds issued for the purposes of this Act in such denomi-
nations as they deem best, and offer all such bonds in the open market
for cash, to the highest bidder, by sealed proposal, after advertisement in
the County papers, a paper in Washington City and one in Baltimore
City, at least once a week for a period of four weeks.

The bonds shall be known as Montgomery County Sewerage and Drain-
age Bonds. They shall be non-contestable for any cause and exempt from
all taxation, and shall bear interest not to exceed five per cent, per annum,
payable semi-annually. They shall run for a period of not exceeding
twenty-five years, and shall be signed by the President of the County
Commissioners of said County, countersigned by the Clerk of the said
Board with the Corporation seal of said Board of County Commissioners
affixed, and shall contain a distinct reference to the Sewerage and Drain-
age District or area for which issued.

The bonds issued under this Act shall be a first lien upon all land and
improvements thereon, within the said district or area, subject only to the
lien for regularly levied State and County taxes, and regularly levied
municipal taxes were levied against land within an incorporated munic-
ipality, existing at the date of said bonds.