The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1918-06-21
Public Local Laws
Passed by the Legislature, Ses-
sion 1913

Commissioners
CHAPTER 1872
AN ACT 10 create q 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 land the operation, maintenance,
regulation and control of said sys-
TENS. and Tor other purposes.
Section Be it enacted by the Cen
eral Assembly of Maryland, That all
those parts of Montgomery and Prince
Georges Counties bounded as Columbia
boundary, the MarylandVirginis boun-
Diary the westerly corporate limit OF
Glen Echo, Cabin John Creek, 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 a bend in said road, approximately
1920 feet east of the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad tracks, thence by a line
running south II degrees 40 minutes
West, ITO feet. south AZ degrees OF min
utes, east, l, 033 feet, south IS degrees Al
minutes east, 1888 feet, south 70 degrees
minutes east, 400 feet, thence by q
straight line eastwardly to the corner of
Brookvllle Road and Parker Avenue
(same being about 3,173 feet south of
Colesvi.le Road, thence by line run
ming north IS degrees u minutes east.
1,344 feet in Parker Avenue, south "A
degrees ~ minutes east, 1,009 feet, north
80 degrees 80 minutes east, $50 feet,
south So degrees Is minutes east, 1,295
feet, south S44 degrees 3S minutes east,
SAT feet, south 70 degrees 56 minutes
. east, 932 feet, south IA degrees so 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 junction of Kemps Mill Road and
Wheaton Four Corners Road, thence by
line running north SO degrees 50 min
utes east, 705 feet, north 81 degrees "a
minutes east, 1876 feet, north 81 degrees
48 minutes east, 1877 feet, north 63 de-
grees 446 minutes east, about 604444
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, a 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 northeasterly from
the intersection of Edmonston Road and
Jefferson Avenue, south boundary of
Evansville Election District, east bound
ary of Bladensburg Election District,
north boundary of Kent Election Dis
trict, Bald Hill Branch, Washington,
Baltimore and Annapolis Electric Rail
way, Ardmore-Brightseat Road, Blad-
ensburg- Marlboro Road to Brightseat,
thence private Toad through farm of q.
M. Roberts. southerly to northeast
corner of Seat Pleasant Election District
and the east and south boun diaries of
Seat Pleasant Election District, be and
the same are hereby incorporated, for
the purposes hereinafter set forth to be
known as the washington Suburban
Sanitary District"
Sec. 2. 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 /, 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
qualified. 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 original 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 to
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 a 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 and
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 a
common seal, to sue and be sued, and
to do any and all other corporate acts
for the purpose of carrying out the
provisions of this Act. Whenever it
shall be deemed necessary by said
Commission to take or acquire any land,
structures or buildings, either in fee or
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 or
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 or
owners thereof, may condemn the same
by proceedings in the Circuit Court for
the county in which said land, structures
or buildings are located, as now pro-
yided for condemnation of land by
public service corporations in Article
81 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
racordatioa of the verdict or award in