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a new section, to follow after section sixty-three, to be known
as sixty-three A, and by adding another new section, to follow
after section sixty-four, to be known as sixty-four A.
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New sections.
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63 A. The said Mayor and City Council are authorized to
acquire by purchase from the owner or owners, any land, real :
or leasehold estate, improved or unimproved, right of way,
easement, water right or water course which they may con-
ceive expedient or necessary to purchase and hold for the
purpose of building sewers or drains, or for the purpose of
constructing and operating a general sewerage or drainage
system for said city, or for the purpose of carrying out or
exercising any of the powers and privileges granted said Mayor
and City Council by law; and if the said Mayor and City
Council can not agree with said owner or owners, or if said
owner or owners, or any of them, be absent from the State or
unknown, or without legal capacity to contract, by reason of
infancy, coverture, insanity or otherwise, it shall be lawful for
the said Mayor and City Council to secure by condemnation
any such land, real or leasehold estate, improved or unimproved,
right of way, easement, water right or water course, which they
may deem necessary for the purpose of building or operating
any sewer or sewers, or drain or drains, or for a general
sewerage or drainage system, or for any of the public pur-
poses for which said Mayor and City Council are granted
powers by law, in the same manner and by the same proceed-
ings as are now provided for in condemnation by corporations
under article twenty-three, sections 248, &c., of the Code of
Public General Laws of the State of Maryland.
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May purchase
land, water
courses, etc.
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64 A. The Mayor shall have the right to disapprove any par-
ticular item or items in orders, resolutions or ordinances appro-
priating money, or in any order or ordinance or resolution
passing accounts or claims against the city, and to approve the
other items in said order, resolution or ordinance, in which
event the items so approved shall be finally adopted and in
force and effect, as if the order, ordinance or resolution con-
tained such items alone; and the Mayor shall return to the
City Council his reasons for the rejection or disapproval of any
such item or items as he may disapprove, when, if passed by
two-thirds of all the members elected to said council, said item
or items shall be finally adopted and in force and effect, to all
intents and purposes, as if they had been approved by the
Mayor.
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