502 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

event of the absence, sickness or other disability, for the time be-
ing, of its Chairman or Secretary, respectively, the Comptroller
shall draw his warrants upon the City Register, payable out of
such appropriations from said special fund for the amounts
of all items of cost or expense properly chargeable upon said
special fund, but said bonds or stock shall not be issued, in
whole or in part, unless the ordinance of the Mayor and City
Council of Baltimore providing for the issuance thereof shall
be submitted to the legal voters of the City of Baltimore, at such
time and place as may be fixed by said ordinance, and be ap-
proved by a majority of the votes cast at such time and place
as required by Section 7 of Article 11 of the Constitution of
Maryland. If issued pursuant to such approval, the Commis-
sioners of Finance of the City shall issue said bonds or stock,
payable at such time or times, not exceeding forty years, and
at such rate of interest as the City Council may determine, not
exceeding 5%. Said City may make payable annually a pro-
portion of the principal of said bonds or certificates, and provide
that said stock or bonds may be issued in series, falling due at
stated periods; in which event the Mayor and City Council of
Baltimore shall annually raise, by taxation, the amount re-
quired to meet such interest and the proportion of the principal
then payable. The sinking funds of any loans of said City may
be invested in said bonds or certificates.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Sewerage Com-
mission shall locate its sewers intended for house connections
in the rear of said houses whenever practicable and whenever
said houses are not already otherwise connected with sewers,
but said Sewerage Commission may locate any of said sewers
in the front of said houses whenever the cost to the owners of
the majority of the houses to be connected with said sewers in
any block will be less if laid in front of said houses than if laid
in the rear of said houses, and it shall be the duty of the Sew-
erage Commission to use private sewers whenever suitable and
whenever any of said sewers is suitable and of sufficient capac-
ity both to drain the houses connected with each sewer and
such other houses as may be built abutting on that part of the
street, alley or way in or near which said sewer is located, then
the said Commission shall acquire, and it is hereby directed
to acquire said sewer, if the same can be obtained at a sum not
exceedingly fifty per cent, of what would be the cost of construct-
ing and laying a sewer of the same kind in the same place, and
if the same cannot be obtained, then the said Commission shall
not be required to acquire said sewer, but said Commission