THEODORE R. MCKELDIN, GOVERNOR 1519

defendant any person, firm or corporation having any re-
corded lien, or encumbrance against the same, and the Cir-
cuit Court is hereby empowered and authorized to deter-
mine the respective amounts due the defendants, and from
and after payment into Court or to the proper parties the
Commission shall be authorized to take possession of,
maintain and operate said system, whether private or
municipal, as part of its general system, and from the date
of such payment all properties along the line of any water
main or sewer of the system acquired shall stand in the
same relation, bear the same benefit assessment, and be
subject to the same regulations and penalties as though
the system so acquired had been constructed and put into
operation by the Commission under the provisions of this
sub-title; provided, however, that no building or premises
actually connected in an adequate manner with the said
acquired system at the time of its purchase shall be required
to pay any connection charge. Whenever there is in exist-
ence a privately owned water supply or sewerage system
which in the judgment of the Commission is unfit, as a
whole or in part, for incorporation with the Commission's
system, the Commission shall disregard the existence of
said system or unfit part thereof and extend its system to
serve the area tributary to the existing system or unfit
part thereof, and all the provisions of this sub-title relat-
ing to systems constructed by the Commission shall apply
to said extension. Any municipality whose system is ac-
quired by the Commission, whether by purchase or con-
demnation, is hereby authorized to use the amount paid to
it for said system for the purchase or redemption of any
bonds or debt which may be outstanding against the same
or the Commission may as part of the purchase price of
. said system, assume the payment of any such bond. The
Commission shall not purchase any existing water mains,
sewers or systems, in whole or in part, which are im-
properly constructed or are not of sufficient capacity or
were constructed without proper authority from the State
Department of Health since the passage of the Act requir-
ing the same.

430Q. After the passage of this sub-title, whenever a
municipality or the property owners or residents of any
locality in the Metropolitan District shall desire a water
supply, sewerage or drainage system, or part thereof, to be
constructed in that municipality or locality, and the Com-
mission shall decide that it is inexpedient or impracticable
at that time, owing to the remoteness from its general sys-
tem or other causes, to build such system, such municipality