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building sewers or drains and disposal plants or for the pur-
pose of constructing and operating a general sewerage and
drainage system for said city or for the purpose of carrying
out or exercising any of the powers and privileges granted said
Mayor and City Council by law, and if the said Mayor and
City Council cannot agree with said owner or owners or if
said owner or owners, or any of them be absent from the State
or unknown or without legal capacity to contract, by reason of
infancy, coverture, insanity or otherwise, it shall be lawful for
the said Mayor and City Council to secure by condemnation
any such land, real or leasehold estate, improved or unim-
proved, right of way, easement, water right or water course
which they may deem necessary for the purpose of building or
operating any sewer or sewers, or drain or drains, and disposal
plants or for a general sewerage or drainage system, or for any
of the public purposes for which said Mayor and City Council
are granted powers by law, in the same manner and by the
same proceedings as are now provided for in condemnation by
corporations under Article 23, Sections 399, etc., of the Code
of Public General Laws of the State of Maryland.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this is an emerg-
ency Act necessary for the immediate preservation of the pub-
lic health and safety, and being passed upon a yea and nay
vote, supported by three-fifths of all the members elected to
each branch of the General Assembly, the same shall take effect
from the date of its passage.

Approved April 9, 1924.

CHAPTER 89.

AN ACT to add one new section to Article 1 of the Public Local
Laws of the State of Maryland, title "Allegany County, "
sub-title "Jurors, " said new section to be known as Section
178D.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That a new section be and the same is hereby added to
Article 1 of the Code of Public Local Laws, title "Allegany
County, " sub-title "Jurors, " said new section to be known as
Section 178D and to read as follows:

178D. All Jurors summoned to attend upon the Circuit
Court for Allegany County shall receive as compensation the
sum of four ($4. 00) dollars per day together with an amount
equal to fifteen ($0. 15) cents per mile for the distance from