1868 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 758

District, other than those sewers used exclusively as lateral
sewers, where, in its judgment, main or trunk sewers, inter-
cepting sewers, sub-main sewers, pumping plans, force mains
and treatment works or any of such installations as are neces-
sary for the public health and welfare of the Sewerage Dis-
trict. Whenever, and as, plans are completed in those sections
most needing service, the Commission shall give notice, by
publication in one or more newspapers published in Annapolis,
that said improvements are contemplated and shall state the
probable cost thereof, that plans of same may be seen at its
office, and that at a time specified in said notice, any persons
interested in said improvements will be heard. Said Com-
mission may, however, without notice make such connections
of sewer lines as may be deemed necessary for the immediate
relief of any community.

89. For the purpose of providing funds for the design, con-
struction, establishment and maintenance of the sewerage and
drainage systems and treatment plants as described in Section
88 and for the purchase or condemnation of property as
authorized by Section 87, within or outside the Sewerage Dis-
trict, said Commission is authorized and empowered to issue
bonds, from time to time, in such amount as may be necessary
to carry out said purpose, said bonds shall be either registered
or coupon bonds, in such denomination or denominations as
shall be determined by the Commission, shall bear interest
not exceeding 5 per cent, per annum, payable semi-annually,
and shall mature not exceeding fifty years from the date of
issuance, or shall be on the serial annuity plan as determined
by said Commission. Any such bonds may be issued pursuant
to the authority of this section and for the purposes herein-
above enumerated at any time and from time to time here-
after, the authority herein contained to be construed as a
continuing one and not exhausted at any time by the exercise
thereof providing no such debt shall be incurred and no bonds
issued pursuant to the authority of this section if by such
issuance the total par value of said bonds outstanding and
to be issued shall exceed five per centum of the then assessed
value of all real and personal property in the said District
subject to assessment for unlimited taxation by the County
Commissioners of Anne Arundel County. In determining
whether said debt limitation shall have been reached at any
time, the Commission shall not take into account any bonds
which have been retired by the Commission at maturity or
redeemed or purchased by the Commission for the purposes
of retirement in advance of maturity. Said bonds shall be
forever exempt from State, county and municipal taxation.
They shall be issued under the hand and seal of said Com-