HERBERT R. O'CONOR, GOVERNOR. 1777

one (1) arbitrator. The two (2) arbitrators so appointed shall
select a third, who shall be chairman of the Board of Arbitra-
tion. If the two arbitrators are unable to agree upon the third
arbitrator, the Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals shall be
requested to designate such third arbitrator, and the written
decision of the majority of the Board of Arbitration shall be
final and binding upon both parties. If, in the future, the Com-
missioners should desire to acquire water distribution mains
and their appurtenances owned by Baltimore City and serving
consumers in the Metropolitan District exclusively, or, if the
Mayor and City Council of Baltimore should seek to acquire
additional rights for the construction of sewer or water facili-
ties in any manner affecting Baltimore County, said Commis-
sioners and the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, in either
event, shall negotiate, and if unable to agree shall submit the
matter to arbitration in the manner above provided.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That Section 330 of
Article 3 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland
(1930 Edition), title "Baltimore County", sub-title "Health
and Sanitation" (Metropolitan District), as the same was
repealed and re-enacted by Chapter 186 of the Acts of 1937,
be and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with
amendments, to read as follows:

330. The Commissioners from time to time shall cause
surveys, studies, plans, specifications and estimates to be
made for water supply, sewerage and storm water drainage
systems in all those parts of the Baltimore County Metro-
politan District in which there is, in their judgment, a need
for water supply, sewerage or drainage. Whenever plans shall
have been completed for a water supply, sewerage or storm
water drainage system, or any part thereof, in any part of
the District the Commissioners shall proceed to construct or
cause to be constructed such systems, or parts thereof, by
contract, after public advertisement, or by day labor, if no
satisfactory contract can be made after public advertisement,
as they may deem advisable, so that said system or systems
may be constructed at a minimum cost, provided, however,
that the cost of such work carried out by day labor shall not
exceed, at any time, twenty-five hundred dollars ($2, 500. 00).
No water or sewer lines or systems, or any part thereof,
shall be constructed except upon the written recommendation
of the Chief Sanitary Engineer. Before making his recom-
mendation in writing with respect to the construction or
extension of any water or sewer lines or systems, or any parts
thereof, the Chief Sanitary Engineer shall make a thorough
field inspection of the territory proposed to be served by the
new construction or extension, and shall prepare sufficient