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after acquired by the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore for the pro-
tection or enlargement of its water supply, sewerage, stormwater drainage
or refuse disposal systems or any other of its utility properties.

1924, ch. 539, sec. 18. B. Co. C. (1928). sec. 344,

344. Every act or omission designated as a misdemeanor in this Act,
unless otherwise provided, shall be punishable upon conviction before any
Justice of the Peace or in the Circuit Court of the county within which
such offense is committed, by a fine not exceeding $100 or imprisonment
for thirty days in the county jail, or both, in the discretion of the Court
or Justice. Where such act or omission is of a continuing nature and is
persisted in in violation of the provisions of this Act, or of any rule or
regulation formulated thereunder, a conviction for one offense shall not
be a bar to a conviction for a continuation of such offense subsequent to
the first or any succeeding conviction.

1924, ch. 539, sec. 19. B. Co. C. (1928), sec. 345.

345. Nothing in this Act shall be taken or construed to abate, terminate
or in any other manner affect any proceedings which have been conducted
and carried on under the provisions of Chapter 197 of the Acts of 1916,
as amended by Chapter 35 of the Acts of 1922, or any certificates of in-
debtedness issued or to be issued thereunder, or under any other existing
law at the passage of this Act, but such proceedings begun thereunder
and which are pending at the passage of this Act shall be prosecuted and
concluded in the same manner as if this Act had not been passed. And
provided further, that the provisions of this Act shall not apply to the
water and sewerage systems as established and belonging to the Bethle-
hem Steel Corporation, or its subsidiaries at Sparrows Point.

1924, ch. 539, sec. 20. B. Co. C. (1928), sec. 346.

346. All Acts or parts of Acts, general or local, inconsistent with the
provisions of this Act, be and the same are hereby repealed to the extent
of such inconsistency, provided that nothing contained in this Act shall
affect or restrict any control which the State Board of Health of Mary-
land is empowered by law to exercise in any part of this State. And
provided that nothing in this Act shall be construed to repeal or in any
other manner affect, the authority, rights, privileges and powers granted
to the City of Baltimore under the provisions of Chapter 349 of the Acts
of the General Assembly of 1904 and Chapter 214 of the Acts of the
General Assembly of 1908, and any amendments thereto, which said
authority, rights, privileges and powers are hereby ratified and confirmed.

1927, ch. 5. B. Co. C. (1928), sec. 347.

347. The County Commissioners of Baltimore County are authorized
and empowered to borrow on the credit of Baltimore County such sum
or sums of money, from time to time as the County Commissioners may
deem necessary, provided that such loans in the aggregate shall not at