HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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all other parts of the sanitary district; provided, however,
that the commission shall not levy any ad valorem tax or any
front foot benefit tax, assessment or other charge within
any of [said] THE additional areas until such time as the
construction of a water or sewer system within any one of
[such] THE additional areas shall be actually commenced or
an existing water or sewer system shall be extended to
[such] THE area.

The commission may, whenever it deems it advisable,
construct a water, or sewer system or systems in any of the
additional areas described above, and any such water or
sewer system or any extension thereof shall be taken and
considered as part of the commission's general system and
subject to all of the rules, regulations, assessments and
benefits affecting the same as part of the territory of the
sanitary district for the purpose of direct tax or any or
all of the provisions of chapter 122 of the Acts of 1918 and
any amendments thereof; provided, however, that the
commission may levy such benefit charges and may make such
service rates in relation to any water or sewer system
constructed in any of [said] THE additional areas as it
shall determine to be necessary and proper for the
construction or financing of such water or sewer system or
for the operation and maintenance thereof, without regard to
the benefit charges levied or the service rates made in any
other area within the sanitary district, provided, however,
that the commission shall not levy any such benefit charges
on any agricultural property in the area described in this
section, which agricultural property is hereby defined as
any tract of five or more acres upon which produce or other
agricultural products are raised for profit.

19-18. Same — Vicinity of Gaithersburg.

The following area is hereby added to the Washington
Suburban Sanitary District: Beginning at a point where the
corporate limits of the Town of Gaithersburg and the
existing boundary of the Washington Suburban Sanitary
District intersects the southwest property line of lot 20 of
Observatory Heights Addition to Gaithersburg as recorded
among the land records of Montgomery County in plat book 2,
page 138, and running thence to the west corner of [said]
lot 20 being also the end of the first or north 44° east 660
feet line of the conveyance from John T. Desellum and Sarah
Ann Desellum to Vandelia Owen as recorded among the land
records of Montgomery County in liber E. P. B. 17, folio
122, thence in a southwesterly direction reversely with the
first line of the [said] conveyance 400 feet, thence in a
northwesterly direction and crossing Water Street
(Fitzgerald Road) to the southwest corner of the lot
retained by the grantor in the conveyance from Oscar F.
Fulks and Edith M. Fulks to the Washington Suburban Sanitary
Commission as recorded among the land records of Montgomery
County in liber C. K. W. 612, folio 345, being also a point
on the west side of Water Street, thence north 64° 31' 40"
west 200.89 feet to the southwest corner of [said] THE lot,