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or in the same manner as County taxes are ordinarily col-
lected, or by a bill in equity at the instance of the Treasurer
to enforce such lien; and upon any order awarding damages
becoming final, or in the event of an appeal to the extent that
such order is affirmed on appeal, the damages so awarded shall
become due and payable.

Upon the filing of the report of the examiners said County
Commissioners shall at once proceed to construct, establish, re-
locate or repair such sewerage system and to operate and main-
tain the same, and for the purpose of providing immediate
funds for such work, they are authorized to issue negotiable
promissory notes of said County as herein provided.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That for the purpose of pro-
viding funds for constructing and establishing any sewerage
system petitioned for under the preceding section, the County
Commissioners of Baltimore County shall, whenever the cost
of such system over and above the amount realized from the
excess of the assessment for benefits on the property benefited
thereby over the amount awarded for property damaged there-
by shall exceed 1 per cent, of the assessed value of the prop-
erty benefited thereby, pledge the credit of the county for the
payment of such extra cost, and as evidence thereof shall issue
the negotiable promissory notes of said county bearing in-
terests at 5 per cent, per annum, payable at 'such times as to
insure that the aggregate value of all such notes maturing in
any one year shall not be more than 1 per cent, of the assessed
value of the property benefited by the construction and estab-
lishment of such system. Provided, however, that the said
County Commissioners shall at no time pledge the credit of
the County by the issuance of notes for the construction of
such sewerage system, or contracting debts or obligations there-
for, or in any other manner or under any pretense or authority
whatsoever for an amount exceeding at any one time in the
aggregate $300, 000., and all acts or parts of acts and all laws
or parts of laws, whether Public, Local or General Laws of
the State of Maryland, inconsistent herewith, are repealed to
the extent of such inconsistency,

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted. That for the purpose of
paying said notes when and as they mature a tax of 1 per cent,
of the assessed value of all the property benefited by such sys-
tem or such part of 1 per cent, as may be deemed necessary or
desirable by the County Commissioners of Baltimore County
shall be levied each year on the property so benefited until said