1128 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 450

or drain, public or private, through any private property. To
pave and keep in repair, subject to the provisions herein con-
tained as to the Board of Public Improvements and Board of
Estimates, all necessary sewers and drains and to pass all
regulations necessary for the preservation of the same, and to
authorize any person appointed by it or by the Commissioner
of Health or by the City Engineer, as hereinafter provided,
for that purpose, to enter upon the lands, grounds or posses-
sions of any person or body politic, through which the common
sewers or private sewers or drains run or may run, to examine,
inspect, regulate, make or repair the same, such person, when
not otherwise appointed by it to be appointed by the Commis-
sioner of Health, if the sewer or drain be a private sewer or
drain, though connected with a public sewer, so far as said
private sewer or drain shall be upon private property, and to
be appointed by the City Engineer for all other sewers or
drains; and in the case of private sewers or drains, the regula-
tions, making or repairing of the same to be at the expense of
the owners of the property, real or leasehold, served by said
sewers or drains, and with power also to make any and all
costs and expenses incurred in or about the regulation, making
or repairing of private sewers or drains a lien upon the in-
terests of the owners in the real or leasehold property served
by said sewers or drains, with power also to provide for the
enforcement of such liens by gale of the property whether real
or leasehold; to condemn any land or interest in land in the
mode provided in this Article for the use of the Mayor and
City Council of Baltimore in the construction of any sewers or
sewerage system; to inspect and regulate house drainage and
sewerage connections, and to prescribe the kind and quality of
material to be used for such purposes. But all work done in
making, repairing or altering within private property, that is,
not in any public street, public lane, public alley or public
property, any private sewer or drain or waste or ventilating
pipe connecting with a sewer, either public or private, shall
be done under the supervision of the Inspector of Plumbing of
said City under the direction of the Commissioner of Health
and under a permit from the Commissioner of Health or his
authorized assistant, to he issued only to any person duly
qualified to do such work under said Article 4 of the Public
Local Laws of Maryland, said permit to be issued in accord-
ance with any ordinances now existing or which may here-
after be passed by the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore
not in conflict herewith, or in accordance with any rules which