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ment of sewage and industrial or other wastes now discharged or to be dis-
charged in the future to the streams of the Conservancy District, and also,
for cleanliness of the various streams in the Conservancy District.

ARTICLE III.

The moneys necessary to finance the Commission in the administration
of its business in the Conservancy District shall be provided through ap-
propriations from the signatory bodies and the United States, in the man-
ner prescribed by the laws of the several signatory bodies and of the
United States, and in amounts, as follows:

The pro rata contribution shall be based On such factors as population;
the amount of industrial and domestic pollution; and a flat service charge;
as shall be determined from time to time by the Commission, subject, how-
ever, to the approval, ratification and appropriation of such contribution
by the several signatory bodies. And, further provided, that the total of
such sums from all signatory bodies shall not exceed a total of thirty
thousand dollars, ($30,000), per annum.

ARTICLE IV.

Pursuant to the aims and purposes of this compact, the signatory bodies
mutually agree:

1. Faithful cooperation in the abatement of existing pollution and the
prevention of future pollution in the streams of the Conservancy District.

2. The enactment of adequate and, insofar as is practicable, uniform
legislation for the abatement and control of such pollution.

3. The appropriation of biannual¹ sums on the proportionate basis as set
forth in Article III.

ARTICLE V.

This compact shall become effective immediately after it shall have been
ratified by the majority of the legislatures of the States of Maryland and
West Virginia, the Commonwealths of Pennsylvania and Virginia, and by
the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, and approved by the Con-
gress of the United States; provided, however, that this compact shall not
be effective as to any signatory body until ratified thereby.

ARTICLE VI.

Any signatory body may by Legislative action, after one year's notice
to the Commission withdraw from this compact.²

1927, ch. 641, sec. 348A.

393. The Mayor and Council or Town Commissioners or any other
governing body of any city or town, may construct or establish by purchase
or condemnation, water supply, sewerage, drainage and refuse disposal
systems in any municipality, or may extend or alter any existing water sup-
ply, sewerage, drainage or refuse disposal system, and may maintain and
operate any such system so constituted, established, extended or altered
under the provisions hereinafter set forth. The above mentioned authori-

¹ Biennial" evidently intended.

² Sec. 2, ch. 320, 1939, provided that if any clause of said act was held invalid, such
decision should not affect the validity of the remaining provisions.