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be approved by a majority of the legal voters of Baltimore city,
and at the time and place to be appointed by said ordinance in
the provision for submitting the same to the legal voters of said
city as required by section 7 of article 11 of the constitution of
the State.1

1888, ch. 98, sec. 25.

929. Before the mayor and city council of Baltimore shall
lay any water pipes along any street, road, lane or avenue in the
territory annexed to the city of Baltimore under the provisions
of the act of 1888, chapter 98, upon which the Catonsville water
company lias laid its pipes and other water appliances, the said
mayor and city council of Baltimore shall, if said company
desires to surrender said pipes and water appliances in such street,
road, lane or avenue, to the mayor and city council of Baltimore,
pay to the said company the fair value of its water pipes and
other water appliances constructed in said street, lane, road or
avenue, and such actual damages to the said company as shall
be caused by the acquisition of said pipes and appliances by the
mayor and city council of Baltimore; and the amount so to be
paid, if the said company and the said mayor and city council of
Baltimore cannot agree in reference thereto, shall be ascertained
by a majority of a board of three arbitrators, one to be ap-
pointed by the mayor and city council of Baltimore, and one by
eaid company; and the two arbitrators thus appointed shall ap-
point the third arbitrator; and if they cannot agree upon such
third arbitrator, the latter shall be appointed by the governor of
the State.

BALTIMORE WATER COMPANY.

P. L. L., (1860,) art. 4, sec. 940.

930. The mayor and city council of Baltimore are authorized
to purchase all the property, estates, rights and privileges of any
chartered company authorized to introduce, or which may here-
after be authorized to introduce water into said city, upon such
terms as may be agreed upon by the mayor and city council of
Baltimore and such corporation or corporations, in the manner
prescribed in their respective charters, or in the absence of such

1 Approved by the people at October election, 1886.