ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 583

ward the construction of said systems, and where said system
or systems have built in connection with and for the purpose
of developing home sites, sub-divisions or villages by any in-
dividual, firm or corporation and such system or systems have
been offered as an inducement for the purchase of lots or land
therein, the jury shall deduct from the determined value of
the plant or system such sum as it may reasonably determine
was added to the purchase price of said land or lots in the sale
thereof for the purpose of constructing said system. Privately
owned systems shall be taken under said condemnation by said
commission free and clear of all debts and liens, but said com-
mission shall make a party defendant any person, firm or cor-
poration having any record lien or incumbrance against the
same, and the Circuit Court is hereby empowered and author-
ized to determine the respective amounts due the defendants,
and from and after payment into court or the proper parties,
said commission shall be authorized to take possession of, main-
tain and operate said system, whether private or municipal,
as a part of its general system, and from the date of such pay-
ment all properties along the line of any water main or sewer
of the system so acquired shall stand in the same relation,
bear the same benefit assessment, and be subject to the same
regulations and penalties, as though the system so acquired had
been constructed and put into operation by the said commission
under the provision of this Act; provided, however, that no
building or premises, actually connected in an adequate man-
ner with the said acquired system at the time of its purchase,
shall be required to pay the connection charge specified under
Section 11. Wherever there is in existence a privately owned
water supply or sewerage system which in the judgment of the
commission is unfit, as a whole or in part, for incorporation
with the commission's system, the commission shall disregard
the existence of said system or unfit part thereof and extend
its system to serve the area tributary to the existing system or
unfit part thereof, and all the provisions of this Act relating to
systems constructed by the commission shall apply to said ex-
tension. Any municipality whose system is acquired by said
commission, whether by purchase or condemnation, is hereby
authorized to use the amount paid to it for said system for the
purchase or redemption of any bonds or debt which may be
outstanding against the same; or the commission may, as a
part of the purchase price of said system, assume the payment
of any such outstanding bonds.