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cast at such time and place as required by Section 7 of Article
11 of the Constitution of Maryland. If issued pursuant to
such approval, the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore shall
levy in each and every year upon all property liable to taxa-
tion in the City of Baltimore a sum sufficient to pay the
interest accruing on said stock and to create a sinking fund
sufficient, with the aid of any premiums on the sale thereof, to
redeem said stock at its maturity.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Sewerage Commis-
sion shall locate its sewers intended for house connections in
the rear of said houses whenever practicable and whenever
said houses are not already otherwise connected with sewers,
but said Sewerage Commission may locate any of said sewers
in the front of said houses whenever the cost to the owners of
the majority of the houses to be connected with said sewers in
any block will be less if laid in front of said houses than if
laid in the rear of said houses, and it shall be the duty of the
Sewerage Commission to use private sewers whenever suitable
and whenever any of said sewers is suitable and of sufficient
capacity both to drain the houses connected with each sewer and
such other houses as may be built abutting on that part of the
street, alley, or way in or near which said sewer is located,
then the said commission shall acquire, and it is hereby
directed to acquire said sewer if the same can be obtained at
a sum not exceeding fifty per cent, of what would be the cost
of constructing and laying a sewer of the same kind in the
same place, and if the same cannot be obtained, then the said
commission shall not be required to acquire" said sewer, but
said commission may either build another sewer to take the
place of said private sewer, or, in its discretion, may acquire
said sewer for a sum exceeding fifty per cent, of said cost, or,
in its discretion, may acquire said private sewer by condemna-
tion in the method provided by said Chapter 349 of the Acts
of 1904; provided, however, that when more than one private
sewer shall exist in the same part of any street, alley or other
way, then who said commission shall be required to acquire, in
the manner and upon the terms hereinbefore set forth, only
that private sewer which in the opinion of said commission
will be best suited for said sewerage system, and provided
that whenever any private sewer has been built since the
passage of said Chapter 349 of the Acts of 1904, or shall here
after be built upon any agreement with the Sewerage Com-
mission that said sewer should thereafter be taken over by said
commission at a price or on terms agreed upon, then said
sewer shall be so taken over by said commission; and in the
event of any disagreement or dispute between the owner or
owners of property or properties or of private sewers, or their