4824 ARTICLE 22.

1916, ch. 29, sec. 8.

439. While the work authorized by this Act is being done by said
commission, the respective duties and powers of the City Engineer and
other city officials in their relations to the existing sewers and drains of
the City of Hagerstown shall, subject to the duties and powers hereby
conferred upon said commission, continue as at present; and said commis-
sion shall be authorized as its work progresses to turn over from time to
time, in its discretion, such completed portions of said work as it may
see fit to the charge, superintendence and control of the proper city offi-
cials. When its work under this Act has been fully and finally completed
in every respect, and not before, the life of said commission, as originally
appointed and as subsequently recruited by appointments to occasional
vacancies, if any, shall come to an end, and the said sewerage system
established by it shall, so far as it has not already been surrendered to
the charge, superintendence and control of said officials, be then so sur-
rendered, and at the same time all the records, writings, and papers of
said commission shall be delivered up to the Mayor and Council of Hagers-
town to be preserved in its office, and all property and effects in its pos-
session belonging to the city to the Mayor and Council of Hagerstown, to-
be disposed of by it as may be provided by ordinance.*

1916, ch. 29, sec. 9.

440. After said sewerage system and sewerage disposal plant shall have
been completed or any portion thereof the same shall become the prop-
erty and effects of the Mayor and Council of Hagerstown and the Mayor
is hereby authorized and empowered to appoint a Superintendent of said
sewerage system and sewerage disposal plant, with the advice and con-
sent of the Council, and such officials and employees as may be needed
or necessary to manage said sewerage system, and by order the said Mayor
and Council may from time to time fix their salaries, wages and compen-
sation in such amounts as it may deem just and reasonable. And the said
Mayor and Council shall, by ordinance only, fix, establish and adjust
reasonable sewer rents, rates and charges for the use of said sewers by
individuals, firms and corporations, and in said ordinance make such rea-
sonable rules and regulations as may be necessary to enforce the payment
thereof and to do all things necessary to fully and completely carry out
the purpose of this Act in the management and control of said sewerage
system and sewerage disposal plant. The Mayor and Council may, in its
discretion, at any time after the completion of said sewerage system or
any portion thereof, adopt a system of free sewerage service connection
for the inhabitants of Hagerstown, and, in that event shall have full power
and authority to make such rules and regulations for the conduct, govern-

*The other sections of ch. 29, 1916, created the Sewerage Commission, defined its
powers and authorized $750,000 for sewers, subject to referendum. Oh. 124, 1924,
abolished the commission. Additional bonds were authorized for sewers as fol-
lows: 1920, ch. 47, $750,000; 1922, ch. 57, $750,000; 1929, ch. 299, $300,000. The Acts
of 1920 and 1922 were approved on referendum vote, the 1929 Act not requiring:
approval.