634 ARTICLE 3.

any one time exceed two hundred and fifty thousand dollars ($250,000),
for the use of the Metropolitan District in Baltimore County, and to
repay such loans out of the moneys derived from subsequent Metropolitan
Bond Issues.

1922, ch. 526, sec. 1. B. Co. C. (1928), sec. 348.

348. The County Commissioners of Baltimore County shall be charged

with the duty of constructing and establishing public county water sys-
tems in Baltimore County wherever and whenever, in their opinion, the
public health, welfare or convenience requires with the power and author-
ity to adopt rules, orders and regulations for the maintenance, preserva-
tion, repair, improvement, protection, examination and inspection of such

systems, and all such rules, orders and regulations shall be recorded in
the record of the proceedings of said Commissioners, signed by them and
attested by their chief clerk and auditor and sealed with the corporate

seal of Baltimore County, and all such rules, orders and regulations shall
have the force and effect of law, and any person violating the provisions
of any such rule, order or regulation shall be deemed guilty of a misde-
meanor and shall be subject to a fine of not less than five dollars or more
than one hundred dollars, to be enforced and collected as other fines are
enforced and collected under the laws of this State. The power to estab-
lish and construct public county water systems in Baltimore County here-
in conferred upon said County Commissioners shall include the power
to do all things which may be necessary or incident thereto, and particu-
larly and expressly is the power conferred upon said County Commis-

sioners to do the following:

(a) To make all preliminary investigations and to do all preliminary
work, which in the opinion of said County Commissioners should precede
the actual construction of any water system.

(b) To employ for such period or periods as may in their opinion be
necessary a capable engineer and to appoint or employ such other pro-
fessional or technical experts or advisors, and such agents or employees,
skilled or unskilled, as they may deem advisable for the proper perform-
ance of the duties imposed on them by this Act, to fix their respective
compensations and to remove or discharge such experts, agents or em-
ployees at pleasure.

(c) To construct, acquire and establish any reservoir, pumping and ni-
tration plants which, in their opinion, may be necessary for the purpose
of this Act, and to acquire by purchase or gift any sources of water supply
in Baltimore County and any public water mains or systems of water
mains now located in Baltimore County and used to supply inhabitants of
Baltimore County with water, and especially all or any part of the plant
formerly belonging to the Baltimore County Water and Electric Company
now owned by the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore and located in
Baltimore County.

(d) To make and enter into any and all contracts, agreements and stipu-
lations germane to the scope of their duties and powers under this Act.