500 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

construction, establishment and completion of the sewerage
system authorized by Chapter 349 of the Acts of the General
Assembly of Maryland, enacted during the Session of the year
1904, including in said system the disposal of sewage and
drainage from property belonging to or under the control of
the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, said money to be
expended for the purposes authorized by said Act of 1910,
Chapter 630, and by this Act, and subject to the terms, con-
ditions and provisions of said Acts, and to regulate the loca-
tion of sewers and provide for the acquisition of private
sewers, and to authorize the submission of an ordinance to that
end to the legal voters of the City of Baltimore.

WHEREAS, By virtue of Chapter 349 of the Acts of the Gen-
eral Assembly of Maryland, enacted during the Session of the
year 1904, a Sewerage Commission of the City of Baltimore was
duly created, charged with the duty of projecting, constructing
and establishing a sewerage system for the collection, transmis-
sion and disposal of the house and other sewage and drainage of
the City of Baltimore; and

WHEREAS, Said Sewerage Commission of the City of Baltimore
has planned and projected said sewerage system and has entered
upon the construction, and establishment of the same, and has
carried on to completion a considerable portion thereof; and

WHEREAS, It has been ascertained that the money derived and
to be derived from the Act of 1904, Chapter 349, and the Act
of 1910, Chapter 630, will not prove sufficient to enable the said
Sewerage Commission to complete the said sewerage system so
planned and projected by it, and more money is, therefore,
needed for the work; and

WHEREAS, Most of the existing house sewers in the City of
Baltimore are located in the rear of houses, generally in alleys
or other ways; and

WHEREAS, The present drainage of practically all of the houses
shall be connected located in the rear of said houses; and

WHEREAS, It will save the owners of said houses great expense
and inconvenience to have the sewers with which the houses
shall be connected located in the rear of said houses; and

WHEREAS, There are a vast number of private properties in
Baltimore City connected with private sewers; and