976 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 506

that required for its interest and sinking fund requirements,
that will, when levied and collected under the provisions of
Section 6 of this Act, produce an amount sufficient to satisfy
said judgment or other sum including costs and counsel fees,
if any, provided, however, that this provision shall relate only
to any cause of action occurring subsequent to the passage of
this Act. Whenever it shall be deemed necessary by said Com-
mission to take or acquire any land, structures or buildings,
or any stream, bed, water way, water rights, or water shed,
either in fee or as an easement, within or without the Sani-
tary District, for the construction, extension or maintenance
of any water main, sewer or appurtenance thereof, or for any
sewage disposal plant, reservoir, water purification plant, tank
or pumping station, said Commission may purchase the same
from the owners or failing to agree with the owner or owners
thereof, may condemn the same by proceedings in the Circuit
Court for the County in which said land, structures or build-
ings, stream bed, water way, water rights, or water shed, as
now provided for condemnation of land by public service cor-
porations in the Code of Public General Laws of Maryland,
except that land used for cemetery purposes may not be con-
demned, and said Commission may likewise condemn the in-
terest of any tenant, lessee or other person having an interest
in said land, structures or buildings, stream bed, water way,
water rights or water shed. At any time after ten days after
the return or recordation of the verdict of award in said pro-
ceedings the said Commission may enter and take possession
of the property so condemned, upon first paying the Clerk of
the Court the amount of said award and all costs taxed to
date, notwithstanding any appeal or further proceedings upon
the part of the defendant; at the time of said payment, how-
ever, it shall give its corporate undertaking to abide by and
fulfill any judgment on such appeal or further proceedings.

Section 5. And be it further enacted, That for the pur-
pose of providing funds for the design, construction, estab-
lishment, purchase or condemnation of the water supply,
sewerage and drainage system in the Sanitary District, said
Commission is authorized and empowered to issue bonds, from
time to time, in such amounts as it may deem necessary to
carry on its work, but at no time shall the total issue of bonds,
not including the payment of bonds assumed under this Act,
exceed fourteen per centum of the total assessable basis
of all property assessed for county taxation purposes,