ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 661
. tem to be supplied with water under this Act, unless said main
be of a size sufficient in the opinion of the Roads and Sanitary
Engineer of Baltimore County to supply for the following forty
years the territory into which said main and extension thereof
may be projected.
Section 4. And be it further enacted, That the Mayor and
City Council of Baltimore and the County Commissioners of
Baltimore County are hereby authorized to enter into an agree-
ment containing such rules and regulations as they may think
proper for the maintenance, repair and protection of said con-
nections and meters and for the examination and inspection of
said meters, but said agreement shall not relieve said County
Commissioners of the obligation to pay for such connections
and meters and for their repair or replacement.
Section 5. And be it further enacted, That the Mayor and
City Council of Baltimore shall at all times keep the water
systems installed by the said County Commissioners and con-
nected with said water mains of said city supplied with an
adequate flow of water fit for human consumption and none
the less pure than the water furnished by said Mayor and City
Council of Baltimore to the inhabitants of Baltimore City, and
there shall be no discrimination by said Mayor and City Coun-
cil of Baltimore in distribution of water in favor of the in-
habitants of the City of Baltimore and against the inhabitants
of Baltimore County.
Section 6. And be it further enacted, That the distribution
to consumers of water obtained under this Act shall be by me-
ters, and the rates said County Commissioners shall charge for
such water shall be determined by the Public Service Commis-
sion of Maryland and said Public Service Commission is hereby
vested with as full and complete jurisdiction to determine such
rates as if said County Commissioners of Baltimore County
were a "water company" as denned in Chapter 180 of the Acts
of 1910.
Section 7. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall
not be held or taken to repeal or modify Chapter 214 of the
Acts of 1908 in any way; provided, however, that should the
County Commissioners of Baltimore County avail themselves
of the right to take ten million gallons of water from the Gun-
powder River pursuant to the terms of said Chapter 214 of
said Acts of 1908, then this Act shall be void.
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