1270 ARTICLE 4.

present water system of Baltimore City and its appurtenances; to ap-
point or employ such professional or technical advisers and experts and
such agents, assistants, clerks, employees, including all members of the
police service hereinafter mentioned, and laborers, skilled or unskilled, of
all kinds, as it may deem requisite for the due aud proper execution of
this Act, and to fix their respective compensations, and to remove and dis-
charge them at its pleasure (except such highly trained, experienced or
skilled individuals as it may appoint or employ upon special terms for
definite and fixed periods of time) and to exact from them such indem-
nity bonds for the proper performance of their respective duties as it may
deem proper; to purchase, hire or otherwise lawfully obtain the use of
all such machinery, apparatus, tools, implements, appliances, supplies,
materials and working agencies as it may need for the purposes of this
Act; to make and enter into any and all contracts, agreements or stipula-
tions germane to the scope of its powers under this Act; to make all such
preliminary surveys and investigations, and to do all such preliminary
work under this Act as it may be advised shall be necessary or proper
for the purposes of this Act; to acquire by gift, purchase, arbitration,
exchange, lease, whatever the duration of the lease, or other like methods
of acquisition, or by condemnation, any land or property, public, quasi
public, or private, situated wholly or partly in Baltimore County or in
Baltimore City, or situated wholly or partly in Anne Arundel County or
in any other county of this State, or any interest, franchise, easement,
right or privilege therein, which may be required for any of the purposes
of this Act, including springs, brooks, creeks, rivulets, rivers or other
water courses, mills, factories, and industrial plants of every description
and their appurtenances, workshops, stores, farm buildings, structures,
and erections, churches, grave yards, school houses, or other school prop-
erty, dwelling houses, out houses, bridges, streets, alleys, roads and ways,
and all other buildings, structures, erections or improvements of every
description, on, over, or under, land, or other property, or any interest,
franchise, easement, right or privilege therein, and in like manner to ac-
quire any corporate franchises or any other thing including earth, timber,
stone, or other materials, or places of temporary or permanent deposit
for excavated material or other like facilities for effectuating the objects
of the Act, of any sort that may be required for the purposes of this
Act; and generally to do and perform all and every such acts or things
which, by anything short of a palpably forced construction, could be held
to be auxiliary or conducive to the proper exercise of any, or all, of the
powers by this Act conferred upon the Mayor and City Council of Balti-
more, or to the effective accomplishment of the leading purpose of this
Act, namely, the collection, accumulation and maintenance of an ample
supply of water in said main reservoir or lake, and its transmission and
distribution in as abundant, clear, pure, healthful, convenient and satis-
factory a character as possible to the City of Baltimore, and its inhabi-
tants, and such other persons as may now or hereafter be lawfully sup-
plied with water by the City of Baltimore for its and their uses. The