The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1914-09-11
Friday. September II, 1914
Public Local Laws
published by authority
CHAPTER 1913
(Continued)

(b). Sewerage System: All the agen-
cies, methods, appliances or OPP
erauons, natural or artificial, s1ngly
or combined, that enter into the collec-
ton, transportation, treatment and
final disposition of sewerage.
(c) Sewerage Districts: All the
territory within which the topographic
or economic conditions are such as to
make possible or advisable the concen-
tration of sewerage at one point, either
for treatment and final disposition or
transportation to more distant point.
(d) Drainage: All storm, surface
or ground water, either IN natural or
artificial channels.
(e) Drainage System: All the agen-
cies, methods appliances or operations,
natural or artificial, singlY or combined,
that enter into the collection, transpor-
tation and final disposition of storm,
slrface or underground water.
(f) Drainage District: All the terri
tory forming the water shed of a par
tlcular stream.
(g) Sewerage or Drainage Areas:
Subdivision of Sewerage or drainage
districts made necessary by topographic
or economic conditions.
CHI Public Nuisance: Any matter,
whether solid, liquid or gaseous, which
of itself is Injurious to health, or which
may become so, on contact with other
substances, whether the latter may be
in themselves harmful or not, further,
any matter which, though not demon
strabiy poisonous, is offensive to the
senses or which on being allowed to
run into stream will render the water
therein unfit for such purposes as it was
used before pollution. Also such dis
position of any matter, that it may,
while in condition above described, ap-
preach within effective distance CT any
distance of any dwelling or occupied
land shall be held public nuisance.
592-E. And be it further enacted,
That upon the passage of this Act, the
said Commission shall cause to be shown
on map of said Prince Georges Coun
ty the various drainage districts therein,
as shown by the topography in the
different parts of said county. 1t may
thereupon determine which of the dis
tricts or parts thereof is in most imme
date need of sewerage or drainage
facilities, and proceed to have accurate
surveys of said districts made aud maps
prepared, showing the outlines thereof
and the various sewerage and drainage
areas therein, together with such topo
graphic detail as will be necessary for
the proper design of sewerage or drain
systems or parts thereof.
Upon these maps shall be projected
proposed plan of main sewerage and
drainage for each district and the vari-
Gus sewerage areas therein and they
shall constitute and be designated, on
the approval of the State Board of
Health, to which duplicate copies shall
be sent proposed main sewerage and
drainage plants for the several districts
represented.
529 F. And be it further enacted,
That when, after thorough investiga-
ton of the sanitary conditions 10 any
district or area, the said Commission is
convinced that the public health and
welfare demand that all or a portion
OF the proposed main sewerage or drain
age plan for any district or area be
constructed and established, they shall
pass resolution to that effect and shall
at once have prepared the necessary
detail plains, specifications and estimat
as. When such plans and estimates are
completed. the said Commission shall
Immediately publish, once week for
three consecutive weeks, in al. county
newspapers published within or near
such district or areas, notices of said
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the improvement, together with the
TACT that said Commission had decided
that vote be taken on a date given, to
determine whether bonds shall be issued
for the construction and establishment
OF all or part of the main sewerage
or drainage systems in the districts or
areGS under consideration.
The said Commission shall at the
same time certify to the Board of Sup
pervisors of Elections for said county
that a vote is desired on the question.
They shall also submit to said board
the proposition, to be printed on the
ballot, and file with them maps and de-
scriptions of the district area 1t shall
tbereupon be the duty of the Board of
Supervisors to approve the date for
said election and issue a call for the
same by publication at least once
week, for a period of three consecutive
weeks in all county newspapers pub
lished within the county, provided
however, that if the date fixed for said
special election is not that of the next
county, State or general election, said
date shall be one at least six months in
advance IF the date on which any one
OF the above elections is to be held
The voting lists on the question of
an issue or sewerage and drainage
bonds in any district or area shall be
composed of:
(a) The qualified voters from the
last general registers of election of
those entitled TO vote at the last coun-
W, State or general election, residing
IN or paying taxes on property within
the district or area
(b) Resident taxpayers, not uualifi
ed voters therin.
(c) Nonresident taxpayers.
(b) Provide, however, that d person
paying dog tax shall not be construct
cd taxpayer for the purposes of this
Act.
The Board of election Supervisors
shall prep re list of those qualified TO
vote on tle question: whose names are
found on the general register. The
SAID Commission shall have preDared
from the tax books of the county, under
the direction of the County Clerk, sepa-
rate lists of the resident and non-resid-
ent taxpayers of the district or area.
These shall be handed to the Board of
Supervisors, who shall cause to be
stricken off from the taxpayers lists
any name found on the list prepared
from the election registers.
The said Commission shall have for
Warded TO each resident taxpayer not
on the list of qualified voters prepared
by the Supervisors of Elections and to
each nonresident taxpayer, at the last
known addresses, copy of the various
official publications on the matter, and
copy of the order fixing the time and
place of the election, together with
blank ballot, across the face of which
has been printed o. written the words
Resident Taxpayers Ballot" and Non
resident Taxpayers Ballot, respective.
ly. If such taxpayer desires TO vote on
the question, the proper mark shall be
made therein, in the presence of
notary, whose ackno w!edgement shall
be endorsed, and whose seal affixed to
said ballot, The same then being for
warded In a sealed registered package
to the said Commission, who shall de
liver it unopened to the Clerk of the
Election, before the close of the polls,
anu the said ballot shall be counted as