1904.] OF THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES. 1915

and expense, as to fully meet the exigencies occasion-
ing such notice; and if any such individual, or corpor-
ation, shall refuse, neglect or fail after such reason-
able notice, to discharge any duty cast upon him or it
by this section, he or it shall, in addition to, but not
in substitution for, any other remedy or remedies,
that said commission or the Mayor and City Council
of Baltimore may have in the premises, be subject, to
a fine of one hundred ($100) dollars for each and
every such offense, and also to an additional fine of
fifty ($50) dollars a day for every day that said
refusal, neglect or failure shall continue ; said tines to
be collected as other fines in the city of Baltimore are
collected ; and should the exigencies of said Commis-
sion and its work, in any case, involve a taking, in
the constitutional sense, of the franchise, or right, in
the exercise of which such obstruction had its origin,
the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, acting by
and through the agency of said Commission shall be
empowered to secure the condemnation of such fran-
chise, or right, in the manner provided for in section
3 of this Act. The preceding provisions of this sec-
tion shall likewise be applicable to any such obstruc-
tion in, over or under the public highways of any
county of this State into which said sewerage system
shall extend.

The duty and cost of adjusting or removing private
drains and sewers in Baltimore city, which shall block
or impede the progress of said sewerage system when
in progress of construction and establishment shall
rest upon and be borne by the Mayor and City Council
of Baltimore exclusively."

Which was adopted.

Which was read the third time and passed.by yeas
and nays as follows :

AFFIRMATIVE.

Messrs.

Speaker, Tighe, Bouchet,

Buckler, Walls, Dawkins,

Atkinson, Butler, Durham,

Downs, Wilson, Linthicum,

Duvall, Carey, Moore,