1068 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

same district or beyond the limits of the property of said per-
son, corporation or municipality, the said Commission may,
after investigation, purchase said system or parts thereof under
agreement with the said individual, corporation or municipal-
ity, provided, however, that the price paid shall not exceed a
sum in the same proportion to the cost of such system or part
thereof as the area within the property of said individual, cor-
poration or municipality contributing to such system or part
thereof bears to the entire area in the sewerage district or area
that will contribute to the said system or part thereof, through
its incorporation with the County system. In case of failure to
agree as to price the system or parts thereof may be acquired
by condemnation proceedings under the general laws of the
State. No part of the cost of said system, or parts thereof, so
acquired, shall be charged by the Commission against the tax-
payers within the limits of the property of said individual, cor-
poration, or municipality.

The said Commission may require the system or parts there-
of of said individual, corporation, or municipality, to be con-
nected to the County system, and shall prescribe the annual
charge or tax to be paid for such connection, which sum shall
be applied toward the payment of the interest and principal of
sewerage and drainage bonds issued for the construction of con-
necting sewers. The said Commission shall also fix a mainte-
nance tax or rental to be charged against all individuals, there-
by admitted to use the County system. Before any existing
systems or parts thereof are connected with the County system,
the owners of said systems or parts thereof shall be required to
make such changes in or repairs to them as the said Commis-
sion may deem necessary to put them in proper shape for con-
nection.

468-I. And be it further enacted, That if the return of the
Board of Supervisors of Election, to the Board of County Com-
missioners, shows a majority of votes in favor of said bond issue
then the County Commissioners shall issue said bonds and all
other bonds issued for the purposes of this Act in such denomi-
nations as they deem best, and offer all such bonds in the open
market for cash, to the highest bidder, by sealed proposal, after
advertisement in the County papers, a paper in Washington
City and one in Baltimore City, at least once a week for a period
of four weeks.

The bonds shall be known as Montgomery County Sewerage
and Drainage Bonds. They shall be non-contestable for any