ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 443

CHAPTER 254.

AN ACT to create a Sewerage Commission in the town of Bel
Air, Harford County, Maryland, to provide for the govern-
ment thereof; to provide for the construction, alteration, ex-
tension, maintenance and operation of a Sanitary Sewerage
System and Sewerage Disposal Plant, to provide for the is-
suance of bonds and notes for the purpose of such construc-
tion, alteration, extension, maintenance and operation and
the levy of assessments and benefits, charges and rates, for
the payment of such bonds and notes and the operation, main-
tenance, regulation and control of said systems; to provide
for the purchase and condemnation of property, and for
other purposes.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland,, That the Commissioners of the town of Bel Air,
Harford County, Maryland, be, and they are hereby author-
ized, empowered and directed at the first meeting after the
passage of this act, to appoint a Sewerage Commission consist-
ing of four members, and not connected with the town govern-
ment, who, together with the President of the Board of Town
Commissioners, ex-officio, shall constitute a special Commis-
sion to be known as the "Bel Air Sewerage Commission, "
(hereinafter designated as the "Commission, ") and who shall
continue in office from year to year until the work of said Com-
mission, under this Act, has been fully and finally completed
in every respect. All persons appointed to said Commission
shall be subject to removal by the Board of Town Commission-
ers at any time for cause. Any member of said Sewerage Com-
mission may at any time resign therefrom by tendering his
resignation in writing to the Board of Town Commissioners;
and any vacancy in said Sewerage Commission occasioned by
the resignation, removal, death or permanent absence from this
State, of the incumbent or by supervening incapacity, on his
part, whether physical or mental, to discharge his duties, or
by any other cause operating to create such a vacancy, either
actually or in effect, shall be filled by the Board of Town Com-
missioners in the manner and subject to all the conditions as
the original appointments, A majority of said Commissioners
shall be lawful quorum for the transaction of business; the
Commission is authorized, empowered and directed to build
and construct, alter, extend, maintain, operate, control and
regulate a sanitary sewerage system and sewage disposal plant
and any and all appurtenances to same for the town of Bel Air,