894 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 681

land (1930 Edition, title "Baltimore County", sub-title
"Health and Sanitation", clarifying and amplifying the
power and authority of the County Commissioners of Balti-
more County to establish, construct and maintain water
supply systems, sewers, sewage disposal plants, pumping
stations and other facilities required for any of the purposes
of the Metropolitan District Act.

SECTION 1. Be U enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 329 of Article 3 of the Code of Public Local
Laws of Maryland (1930 Edition), title "Baltimore County",
sub-title "Health and Sanitation", be and the same is hereby
repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows r

329. That whenever it shall be deemed necessary by the
Commissioners to take or acquire any land, structures or
buildings, source of water supply, any stream bed, water way,
water rights, water shed, franchises, water, sewerage, or
drainage systems, or other property, either in fee or as an
easement, within or without the Metropolitan District, except
within the territorial limits of Baltimore City, in the exercise
of the power and authority hereby expressly conferred on said
Commissioners to establish, construct, locate, maintain, oper-
ate, repair, replace, extend or enlarge any water supply, water,
main, sewer and or drain of any and every kind, nature and
description and appurtenances thereof, or any sewage disposal
plant or field, reservoir, dam, water purification or filtration
plant, tank or pumping station, and al^ other facilities, appur-
tenances and adjuncts that may be required for any of the pur-
poses of this Act, the Commissioners may purchase the same
from the owners, or, failing to agree with the owner or owners
thereof, may condemn the same, except within the territorial
limits of Baltimore City, by proceedings in the Circuit Court for
the county in which said land, structures or buildings, source
of water supply, stream bed, water way, water rights, water
shed, franchises, water, sewerage, or drainage systems, or other
property is situated, as now provided for condemnation of
land by public service corporations in the Code of Public
General Laws of Maryland, and the Commissioners may like-
wise condemn the interest of any tenant, lessee or other person
having an interest in said land, structures, or buildings, source
of water supply, stream bed, water way, water rights, water
shed, franchises, water, sewerage, or drainage systems, or
other property. At any time after ten days following the
return and recordation of the verdict or award in said pro-
ceedings, the commissioners may enter and take possession of
the property so condemned, upon first paying to the Clerk of
the Court the amount of said award and all costs taxed to
date, notwithstanding any appeal or further proceedings upon