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of both Counties, a tax rate, in addition to that required for its interest
and sinking fund requirements, that will, when levied and collected under
the provisions of Section 1019 of this sub-title, produce an amount sufficient
to satisfy said judgment or other sum including costs and counsel fees, if
any, provided, however, that this provision shall relate only to any cause
of action occurring subsequent to the passage of this Act. Whenever it
shall be deemed necessary by said Commission to take or acquire any
land, structures or buildings, or any stream bed, water way, water rights,
or water shed, either in fee or as an easement, within or without the
Sanitary District, for the construction, extension or maintenance of any
water main, sewer or appurtenance thereof, or for any sewage disposal
plant, reservoir, water purification plant, tank or pumping station, said
Commission may purchase the same from the owners or failing to agree
with the owner or owners thereof, may condemn the same by proceedings
in the Circuit Court for the County in which said land, structures or
buildings, stream bed, water way, water rights, or water shed, as now pro-
vided for condemnation of land by public service corporations in the Code
of Public General Laws of Maryland, except that land used for cemetery
purposes may not be condemned, and said Commission may likewise con-
demn the interest of any tenant, lessee or other person having an interest
in said land, structures or buildings, stream bed, water way, water rights
or water shed. At any time after ten days after the return or recorda-
tion of the verdict of award in said proceedings the said Commission may
enter and take possession of the property so condemned, upon first paying
the Clerk of the Court the amount of said award and all costs taxed to
date, notwithstanding any appeal or further proceedings upon the part
of the defendant; at the time of said payment, however, it shall give its
corporate undertaking to abide by and fulfill any judgment on such appeal
or further proceedings.

1918, ch. 122, sec. 4. 1924, ch. 189, sec. 4.

1017. As soon after organization as possible, said Commission shall
cause surveys, plans, specifications and estimates to be made for water
supply, sewerage and drainage systems in those portions of the Sanitary
District in which, in its judgment, such systems, or any of them, are
necessary, and shall divide such territory into water, sewerage or drain-
age districts in such a way as shall, in its judgment, best serve the needs
of the various communities and shall promote convenience and economy
of installation and operation.

That said Commission may thereafter proceed with such construction
in any of said districts as in its judgment it deems advisable, but that
wherever such construction is upon the motion of the Commission without
petition or request from any party interested, said Commission may give
such reasonable notice as it deems advisable.

1918, ch. 122, sec. 5. 1924, ch. 189, sec. 5. 1927, ch. 506, sec. 5.

1018. For the purpose of providing funds for the design, construction,
establishment, purchase or condemnation of the water supply, sewerage