CITY or BALTIMORE. 617

acquisition of private sewers, and to authorize the submis-
sion of an ordinance to that end to the legal voters of the
City of Baltimore.

Whereas, By virtue of Chapter 349 of the Acts of the Gen-
eral Assembly of Maryland enacted during the Session of the
year 1904, a Sewerage Commission of the City of Baltimore was
duly created, charged with the duty of projecting, construct-
ing and establishing a sewerage system for the collection,
transmission and disposal of the house and other sewage and
drainage of the City of Baltimore; and,

Whereas, Said Sewerage Commission of the City of Balti-
more has planned and projected said sewerage system and
has entered upon the construction and establishment of the
same and has carried on to completion a considerable portion
thereof; and

Whereas, It has been ascertained that the money derived
and to be derived from the ten-million-dollar loan authorizd
by Section 6 of this Act will not prove sufficient to enable
the said Sewerage Commission to complete the said sewerage
system so planned and projected by it, and more money is,
therefore, needed for the work; and,

Whereas, most of the existing house sewers in the City of
Baltimore are located in the rear of houses, generally in alleys
or other ways; and,

Whereas, the present drainage of practically all of the
houses shall be connected located in the rear of said houses;
and,

Whereas, It will save the owners of said houses great ex-
pense and inconvenience to have the sewers with which the
houses shall be connected located in the rear of said houses;
and,

Whereas, There are a vast number of private properties in
Baltimore City connected with private sewers; and,

Whereas, An additional number of private properties in
said city will be connected with private sewers before said sew-
erage system will be so far developed as to be connected with
said properties; and,

Whereas, It would cause great inconvenience and tremen-
dous expense in- the aggregate for the owners of such proper-
ties to reconstruct their plumbing systems;

SECTION 1. Now, therefore, be it enacted by the General
Assembly of Maryland, That, in order to provide additional
money for the projection, construction, establishment and
completion of said sewerage system, including in said system
the disposal of sewerage and drainage from property belonging