The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1918-06-28
Public Local Laws
Passed by the Legislature, Ses-
sion 1913
published by authority of the County
Commissioners
CHAPTER 1872

CHAPTER 1872
AN ACT to create a sanitary district
within Montgomery and Prince Geor-
ge's Counties contiguous to the Dis
trict of Columbia; to incorporate the
same, and to provide for the govern
ment thereof; to provide for the con-
struction, maintenance, operation,
purchase or condemnation of water
supply, sewerage and refuse disposal
systems; to provide for the issuance
of bonds for the purpose of such con-
struction; and the levy of taxes, as
easements and benefits, water charges
and rates for the payment of said
bonds;and the operation, maintenance,
regulation and control of said sys-
TENS. and for other purposes.
Section Be it enacted by the Gen.
eral Assembly of Maryland, That all
those parts of Montgomery and Prince
Georges Counties bounded as Columbia
boundary, the Maryland-Virginia boun-
Diary the westerly corporate limit of
Glen Echo, Cabin John Greek, Conduit
Road, Wilson Lane, a straight line from
the intersection of Wilson Lane and
River Road to the intersection OF Orn-
dorf Mill Road and Old Georgetown
Road, Old Georgetown Road, the road
running easterlY past Montrose School
to bend in said road, approximately
4,52O feet east of the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad tracks, thence by line
running south II degrees 40 minutes
West, ITO feet. south AZ degrees OF min
utes. east, ,033 feet, south 70 degrees Al
minutes east, 1888 feet, south 70 degrees
minutes east, 406 feet, thence by a
straight line eastwardly TO the corner Of
10 Do
(same being about 3,173 feet south of
Colesvile Road), thence by line run
ming north 50 degrees q minutes east.
1874 feet in Parker Avenue, south "a
degrees q minutes east, 1,009 feet, north
80 degrees 80 minutes east, $50 feet,
south so degrees Is minutes east, 1925
feet, south ga degrees SO minutes east,
SAT feet, south 70 degrees Sc minutes
east, 932 feet, south IA degrees 81 min
utes east, 124 feet, to Kemps Mill Road,
Kemps Mill Road and Wheaton Four
Corners to point about 2, 116 feet south
of the function of Kemps Mill Road and
Wheaton Four Corners Road, thence by
line running north SO degrees 81 min
utes east, 705 feet, north 81 degrees 81
minutes east, 1876 feet, north So degrees
48 minutes east, 1,377 feet, north So de-
grees 446 minutes east, about 6O4444
feet to Northwest Branch, Northwest
Branch, the Montgomery-Prince Geor-
ge's County boundary, south boundary
of Evansville Election District. Meier
OFT Road, Paint Branch, Little Paint
Branch, Colesville-Beltsville Road, Old
Washington and Baltimore Road. Ed
monston Road, Sunnyside Road, Indian
Creek, and easterly tributary of said
creek approximately one-half mile south
of the entrance of Beaverdam Creek,
Edmonston Road, north and south
line from Edmonston Road to the inter-
section of the south boundary of Vans
vile Election District with the road ex
tending easterly and northessterly from
the intersection of Edmonston Road and
Jefferson Avenue, south boundary of
Evansville Election District, east bound
airy of Bladensburg Election District,
north boundary of Kent Election Dis
trict, Bald Hill Branch, Washington,
Baltimore and Annapolis Electric Rail
way, Acknowledgment Road, Blad-
ensburg- Marlboro Road to Brightseat,
thence private road through farm of G.
d. Roberts. southerly to northeast
corner of Seat Pleasant Election District
and the east and south boun daries of
Seat Pleasant Election District, be and
the same are hereby incorporated, for
the purposes hereinafter set forth to be
known as the "Washington SubuI ban
Sanitary District"
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted,
That, for the purpose of carrying out
the provisions of this Act, said Sanitary
District shall be under the Jurisdiction
of Commission of three members, one
to be appointed by the County Commits
sioners of Montgomery County, one by
the County Commissioners of Prince
Georges County, both upon the recon-
mendation of the State Board of Health
of Maryland, and the third to be named
by the Governor of Maryland, the first
appointments hereunder to be made on
or before May l, 1918, upon which date
the terms of office shall begin. All
appointees shall be residents and tax
payers of said Sanitary District and
shall serve for four years, or until their
successors are appointed and have
quslifed. Upon the expiration of the
terms of the members of said Commits
sion, their successors shall be named in
the same manner as the original
appointments were made. Any vacancy
occurring at any time in the personnel
of the Commission shall be filled by the
agency making the origina appointment
and for the unexpired term The annual
salary of each of said Commissioners
shall be two thousand dollars, payable
monthly. The commission shall elect
one of its members chairman, and shall
appoint, discharge at pleasure, and fix
the compensation of a secretary-treas
urer, a chief engineer and such engi
neering, legal, clerical and other force
and help as, from time to time, in its
judgment may be deemed necessary tc
carry out the provisions Of this Act
Said Commission shall annually publish
in at least one newspaper in Montgom.
cry County and one in Prince Georges
County full and true acc unit of its
receipts, expenses and expenditures
Prior to such publication said accounts
shall be fully audited by a certified
public acc Juntant to be employed anC
paid by said Commission.
Sec. g. And be it further enacted
That the members of said Commission
shall be body corporate, by the name
of the "Washington Suburban Sanitary
Commission" with the right to use {
common seal, to sue and be sued, anC
to do any and all other corporate acts
for the purpose of carrying out tn.
provisions of this Act. Whenever i
shall be deemed necessary by sale
Commission to take or acquire any land
structures or buildings, either in fee OF
as an easement, for the construction
extension or maintenance of any water
main, sewer or appurtenance thereof
or for any sewage disposal plant. reser
voir, water publication plant, tank OF
pumping station, or any stream bed
waterway or watershed, said Commission
may purchase the same from the owners
or failing to agree with the owner OIL
owners thereof, may condemn the same
by proceedings in the Circuit Court fol-
the county in which said land, structures
or buildings are located, as now pro,
vided for condemnation of land by
public service corporations in Article
ID of the code of Public General Laws
OF Maryland, and said Commission may
at the same time condemn the interest
of any tenant, lessee or other person
having an interest in said land. At any
time after ten days after the return and
recnrdat;on of the verdict or award in
said proceeding, the said Commission