PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, GOVERNOR. 1483

tem; second, whether or not the requirement of the State Board
of Health as to the time within which such connections shall be
made reasonable; and third, whether or not the requirements
of the State Board of Health as to the manner in which such
connection shall be made is reasonable. If, the finding of the
jury shall be in favor of the appellant on the first of said issues,
the same shall be final, but if the finding of the jury shall be
against the appellant on the first of said issues and in his favor
on either the second or third of said issues, or on both, the
papers in the cause shall be remanded to the County Commis-
sioners, who shall transmit a record of the same to the State
Board of Health, which shall forthwith pass a new order after
due notice to the appellant and an opportunity given him to be
heard, and transmit a copy of such order to the County Com-
missioners as aforesaid, where it shall again be subject to ap-
peal upon the issue or issues not previously passed upon. Any
person not complying with such order of the State Board of
Health which has become final as in this Section provided, shall
be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and subject to a fine of ten
dollars per day for every day during which he fails to comply
with such an order, such fines to be collected as other fines and
penalties for misdemeanors are collectible. Provided, however,
that no owner or occupant of any property in Baltimore County
shall be required to connect his premises with any private sewer-
age system under the provisions of this Section unless the rates
and terms for such connections have been approved by the
Public Service Commission of Maryland, and that said connec-
tion is permitted at the rates and upon the terms so approved.
And provided further, with the advice and consent of the State
Board of Health that the County Commissioners of said County
shall have the right at any time hereafter to purchase the plant,
property, easements, rights and appliances of any individual,
co-partnership or corporation now or hereafter engaged in the
business of supplying to the public facilities for the disposal of
sewage, and to pay to said individual, co-partnership or cor-
poration the fair value of the same, and in the event of said
County Commissioners being unable to agree with the owner or
owners of said property and rights as to the fair value thereof
said County Commissioners may condemn the same for public
use in the manner prescribed by law; this provision not to be
taken as authorizing the acquisition of any property or rights
outside of the limits of Baltimore County.

132 S. Whenever the cost of any such proposed sewer or
sewerage system constructed or purchased under the provisions