HARRY W. NICE, GOVERNOR. 783

sembly of Maryland of 1918, be and the same is hereby repealed
and re-enacted to read as follows:

13. That for the purpose of providing funds for main-
taining, repairing and operating its water supply, sewers and
drainage systems, including the over-head expense and proper
depreciation allowance, together with funds for making such
payments as may be made to the Commissioners of the District
of Columbia as hereinafter specified, said Commission shall be
empowered and directed to make such service rates as it may
deem necessary, chargeable against all properties for a con-
nection with any pipe under its ownership; said rates shall be
uniform throughout the Sanitary District, but shall be changed
from time to time, as necessary, except that the charge for
water service used in Gaithersburg and Washington Grove
until such time as they are brought within the general system
shall be based upon actual cost of supplying water to said
communities; and provided further, that wherever the Com-
mission, because of public necessity, has extended its water
mains beyond the boundaries of the Washington Suburban
Sanitary District, it may make such further extensions out of
the general proceeds of its funds as may in its judgment render
a needed service; and as to all connections to its water mains
outside of the said District; it may make such charge as it
deems reasonable which charge is to take into consideration
the general tax and front foot benefit charge laid within the
District and it shall have the same power and authority over
such water connections made outside the District at it has
within the District, and providing further that if the Commis-
sion shall at any time use the waters of the Patuxent River at:
or above the Town of Laurel for the purpose of furnishing ad-
ditional water supply to its consumers, it shall as a condition-,
to the right to use such waters furnish to the Mayor and City
Council of Laurel for the use of its water supply such water
from the Patuxent River supply as said Mayor and City Coun-
cil of Laurel may desire at the actual cost of supplying such
water to the water mains of the Town which may be construct-
ed for such purposes by the Mayor and City Council of Laurel
to the nearest convenient point to the Patuxent water supply
of said Commission, said point of connection between the Com-
mission main and the Town main to be at or near the dam of
said Commission.

The rates for service, except as herein provided, shall con-
sist of a minimum or ready to serve charge which shall be
based upon the size of the meter on the water connection lead-
ing to the property, and of a charge for water used, which shall
be based upon the amount of water passing the meter during
the period between the last two readings, said meter being
required to be placed on each water connection, by, and at