428 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 253

No person, firm or corporation shall engage in the business
of collecting garbage, trash, refuse, rubbish or junk for com-
pensation without first securing a permit from said Commis-
sion, and for the protection of the health, comfort and safety
of persons residing within the boundaries of that part of the
Maryland-Washington Metropolitan District lying within
Prince George's County, said Commission may establish rea-
sonable regulations for the collection and disposal of such ma-
terials. A reasonable fee, to be fixed by said Commission for
either maintaining a dump or collecting for hire garbage,
trash, refuse, rubbish or junk shall be paid for each permit
and the said Commission may refuse or revoke a permit for a
public or private dump, after notice and hearing, if the Com-
mission shall find that the location and use of the proposed
dump or the operation of an established dump would endanger
the health, comfort or public welfare of persons residing within
the vicinity thereof, and may revoke any permit for the busi-
ness of collecting garbage, trash, refuse, rubbish or junk for
hire, after notice and hearing, for the violation of its regula-
tions.

It shall be the duty of the Washington Suburban Sanitary
Commission to construct, as soon as practicable, on some con-
venient site to be selected by it, an incinerator of a modern
type for the disposal of garbage, trash, rubbish, refuse or junk.

For the purpose of defraying the cost of such construction,
including the necessary equipment and accessories, the Com-
mission is authorized to issue its bonds or notes, under its
hand and seal, in a sum not to exceed $50, 000. 00 with interest
not to exceed 5% per annum, maturing serially, in such
amounts annually as may be fixed by said Commission, but
all payable within a period of twenty years from date, and
said bonds or notes shall be sold as the General Construction
bonds of said Commission are now sold; and for the purpose
of paying interest on said bonds and principal of the same as
they become due, said Commission is authorized to make and
fix a reasonable schedule of charges for the reception and
disposal of all garbage, trash, rubbish, refuse or junk. The
receipts therefrom, including the permit fees heretofore au-
thorized, shall, after payment for the operation of said plant,
be applied toward the net payment of principal and interest,
and in the event that the net proceeds of said fees and charges
are not sufficient to meet the carrying charges of said bonds
or notes, said Commission is authorized to pay the difference
out of the general water receipts provided for in Chapter 122,
Acts of 1918, provided, however, that in the event part of the
said water receipts is used for the carrying charges of said
bonds or notes, the Commission shall adjust the water rates,
either consumption charge or service charge, in its discretion,