ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR 1065

CHAPTER 518.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Sections

Three (3), Seven (7), Eight (8) and Twenty (20) as

the same were enacted by Chapter 122 of the Acts of the

General Assembly of Maryland of 1918, said Act creating

a Sanitary District within Montgomery and Prince

George's County contiguous to the District of Columbia.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That

Sections 3, 7, 8, and 20 of Chapter 122 of the Acts of the

General Assembly of Maryland of 1918, be and the same are

hereby repealed and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the members of
said Commission shall be a body corporate by the name of the
"Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission," with the right
to use a common seal, to sue and be sued, and to do any and
all other corporate acts for the purpose of carrying out the
provisions of this Act. Whenever it shall be deemed neces-
sary by said Commission to take or acquire any land, struc-
tures or buildings, or any stream bed, water way, water rights
or water shed, either in fee or as an easement, within or
without the Sanitary District, for the construction, extension
or maintenance of any water main, sewer or appurtenance
thereof, or for any sewerage disposal plant, reservoir, water
purification plant, tank or pumping station, said Commission
may purchase the same from the owners or failing to agree
with the owner or owners thereof, may condemn the same by
proceedings in the Circuit Court for the County in which
said land, structures or buildings, stream bed, water way,
water rights or water shed as now provided for condemnation
of land by public service corporations in the Code of Public
General Laws of Maryland, and said Commission may likewise
condemn the interest of any tenant, lessee or other person
having an interest in said land, structures or buildings, stream
bed, water way, water rights or water shed. At any time
after ten days after the return and recordation of the verdict
or award in said proceedings, the said Commission may enter
and take possession of the property so condemned, upon first
paying to the Clerk of the Court the amount of said award
and all costs taxed to date, notwithstanding any appeal or
further proceeding upon the part of the defendant; at the
time of said payment, however, it shall give its corporate