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may either build another sewer to take the place of said pri-
vate sewer, or, in its discretion, may acquire said sewer for a
sum not exceeding fifty per cent, of said cost, or, in its discretion,
may acquire said private sewer by condemnation 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 the 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 hereafter be built upon any agreement
with the Sewerage Commission, that said sewer shall 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
OAvner or owners of property or properties or of private sewers,
or their representatives, and the said Sewerage Commission as
to the location of any lateral sewer or sewer intended for house
connections, or the capacity, location or suitableness of any
private sewer, or the cost of constructing and laying a sewer
similar to any private sewer, then the matter shall be referred
to a board composed of the four City officials now constituting
the Board of Public Improvement of the City of Baltimore,
under rules to be adopted by said board, and the decision of
said board as to any of said matters so referred to said board
shall be final and binding on said Sewerage Commission and the
party or parties appealing, and forty days before the work of
construction of any lateral sewer or sewer intended for house
connections shall be begun, said Sewerage Commission shall
give notice by publication in three or more of the daily news-
papers of Baltimore City of the general location of said sewer,
and any property owner or other person interested in the loca-
tion of said sewer or in any private sewer intended to be used
or which might be used in connection with or instead of the
intended sewer, may, within ten days after the first publication
of said notice, apply to said Sewerage Commission for detailed
information as to the location and construction of said sewer,
and as to what, if any, private sewers are intended to be used,
and said person may, within said ten days, protest in writing
to said Sewerage Commission against any part of the proposed
plan of said sewer, and thereupon said Sewerage Commission,
at some time within a period beginning ten days after said first