FREDERICK COUNTY. 2607

Counties, State of Maryland, to be constructed within and outside of said
town, and to run and operate the same for municipal and commercial
purposes; and for the purposes of this Act to acquire, by purchase or
condemnation, whatever property or rights-of-way within or outside of the
corporate limits of said town of Mt. Airy it may deem necessary and
proper; and for doing whatever work and employing whatever help is
necessary therefor; the said Mayor and Council of Mt. Airy are author-
ized, empowered and directed to borrow on the faith and credit of said
town, not to exceed in the aggregate, the sum of fifteen thousand dollars,
and to issue bonds therefor to be known as the "Mt. Airy Water Bonds,"
said bonds to be signed by the Mayor and countersigned by the Clerk to
the Mayor and Council of Mt. Airy, with the corporate seal of said town
affixed thereto.

1924, ch. 126, sec. 2.

591. Whenever it shall be deemed necessary by the Mayor and Coun-
cil of Mt. Airy to take or acquire any land, structures or buildings, or any
stream bed, water way, water rights or water shed, either in fee or as an
easement, within or without the town of Mt. Airy, for the construction,
extension or maintenance of any water main or appurtenance thereof, or
for any reservoir, water purification plant, tank or pumping station, the
Mayor and Council may purchase the same from the owners, or failing to
agree with the owner or owners thereof, may condemn the same by pro-
ceedings in the Circuit Court for Carroll or Frederick County as now
provided for condemnation of land by public service corporations in the
Code of Public General Laws of Maryland, and said Mayor and Council
may likewise condemn the interest of any tenant, lessee or other person
having an interest in said land, structures or buildings, stream bed, water
way, water rights or water shed. Any time after ten days from the
return of the verdict or award in said proceedings and judgment thereon,
the said Mayor and Council may enter and take possession of the property
so condemned, upon first paying to the Clerk of the Court the amount
of said award and all costs taxed to date, notwithstanding any appeal
or further proceeding upon the part of the defendant; at the time of
said payment, however, it shall give its corporate undertaking to abide by
and fulfill any judgment on such appeal or further proceeding.

1924, ch. 126, sec. 3.

592. The said bonds shall be issued in such form and denominations
as the Mayor and Council of Mt. Airy deems best, with coupons attached
thereto, for the payment of interest thereon semi-annually on the first
days of January and July in each and every year until the maturity
thereof, said coupons to bear the signature of the Mayor and the Clerk to
the Mayor and Council of Mt. Airy, printed or written thereon. Said
bonds may be dated the first day of July, 1924, shall bear interest from the
date thereof at a rate not to exceed 5 per cent, per annum, payable semi-
annually, and shall be forever exempt from municipal and county taxa-
tion. The said bonds may be either serial bonds or sinking fund bonds, and