1182                            LAWS OF MARYLAND                      [CH. 550

time after ten days after the return and recordation of the verdict or
award in any condemnation proceedings, the district 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 that date, notwithstanding any appeal or further proceedings
upon the part of the defendant. At the time of said payment, how-
ever, the district shall give its corporate undertaking to abide by and
fulfill any judgment in such appeal or further proceedings.

665.

Whenever said commission shall have extended a district's water
or sewerage system up to and is ready to connect with any munici-
pally owned [or privately owned] water or sewerage system, and
it deems it advisable and proper for the adequate operation of the
system under the district's jurisdiction to take over the said water
or sewerage system, it may purchase the same upon such terms and
conditions as may be agreed upon, but shall have no right of con-
demnation with respect thereto, but before any part of the purchase
price is paid, other than a nominal sum of money to bind the agree-
ment, it shall be the duty of the vendor or agent to furnish a
statement to said commission setting forth all names and addresses
of persons having any interest or claims against said property what-
soever, which shall be verified by an oath in writing. Thereupon
it shall be the duty of said commission to notify personally or by
registered or certified mail, return receipt requested, all persons
having any interest whatsoever in said property, and in addition
thereto the commission shall give three weeks' notice of its intention
to purchase said property in a newspaper or newspapers published
within said county where the property is located, and each person
having any claim whatsoever against said property shall file his,
or her, or its claim with said commission on or before the expiration
date mentioned in said notice, at which time any and all persons
will be heard and their rights determined by the commission, which
said hearing shall be final. From and after payment to the proper
parties of the agreed purchase price, or other amounts found to be
due by the commission as aforesaid, the commission shall be author-
ized 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 as acquired shall stand in the same relation,
bear the same benefit assessment (subject to the provisions of
Section 657 of this subtitle), 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 subtitle; 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 existence a privately owned water or
sewerage system which in the judgment of the commission is unfit,
as a whole or in part, for incorporation with the district's system,
the commission shall disregard the existence of said system or unfit
part thereof and extend the district's system to serve the area
tributary to the existing system or unfit part thereof, and all the
provisions of this subtitle relating to systems constructed by the
commission shall apply to said extension. Any municipality whose
system is acquired by a district is hereby authorized to use the