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purposes of this Act, the Mayor and City Council of
Baltimore shall have all the power of purchase and/or
condemnation of land and property (including the power to
purchase and/or condemn land and property or any interest
therein or appurtenant thereto devoted to public or
quasi—public use) as is conferred upon the Mayor and City
Council of Baltimore or any agency thereof by Chapter 349
of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1904, authorizing
the establishment of the sanitary sewerage and storm
water drainage systems of Baltimore City.

SECTION 5. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
is hereby declared to be an emergency measure and
necessary for the immediate preservation of the public
health and safety, and having been passed by a yea and
nay vote supported by three—fifths of all the members
elected to each of the two Houses of the General Assembly
of Maryland, the same shall take effect from the date of
its passage.

Approved April 22, 1975.

CHAPTER 344

(Senate Bill 64 3)

AN ACT concerning

Baltimore City — Water System Bond Issue

FOR the purpose of authorizing the Mayor and City Council
of Baltimore to create a debt, and to issue and sell
its certificates of indebtedness as evidence
thereof, to an amount not exceeding Three Million
Dollars ($3,000,000.00), the proceeds derived from
the sale of the certificates of indebtedness to be
used for the purpose of extending, enlarging,
developing and improving the municipal water supply
and the water system of Baltimore City, including,
but not limited to, the construction, reconstruction
and extension of transmission conduits, tunnels, and
distribution mains, the increasing of the source or
sources of supply, the construction of additional
storage reservoirs, additions to and extensions of
existing reservoirs, the construction of additional
pumping stations, filter basins or plants, additions
to and extensions of existing pumping stations,
filter basins or plants, any or all of the work to
be done either within or outside of the boundary
lines of Baltimore City, and the doing of all things
necessary, proper or expedient to secure a full and