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under the laws of this State or any other State of the Union, which shall
have for its object the furnishing and supplying of water to the City
of Cumberland in accordance with the plan voted for by a majority of
the votes cast at the election held in 1910. But in case of any subscrip-
tion to the stock of any such company the Mayor and City Council of
Cumberland shall take all the stock in such water company except such
shares as may be necessary to allot to citizens of the United States to
qualify them as directors to act as such in any such company. And the
said Mayor and City Council of Cumberland are hereby given full
power and authority to do any other act or thing which may be necessary
to carry out and complete and effectuate the objects and purposes of the
sections of this Act pertaining to the water system and supply of said city.

1922, ch. 96, sec. 72.

72. If the Mayor and City Council cannot agree, or if there be any
incapacity or disability to contract with the owner or owners of any land
traversed or through which is laid the water main of the City of Cum-
berland, extending from the Fort Hill Reservoir, near the City of Cum-
berland, to the intersection of the water main of said city with the Mason
and Dixon Line between Allegany County, Maryland, and Bedford Coun-
ty, Pennsylvania, through which the water is conveyed from Evitts Creek
in Bedford County, Pennsylvania, to the City of Cumberland; or if such
owner or owners shall be absent out of the State or unknown, or without
legal capacity to contract by reason of infancy, coverture or otherwise,
it shall be lawful for the Mayor and City Council of Cumberland to
secure by condemnation a right of way, as nearly as practicable fifty feet
in width (except where the same may cross public roads), the same to
extend as nearly as practicable twenty-five feet on each side of the center
line of said main, the title to which, whether acquired by purchase or
condemnation, shall thereafter vest in the Mayor and City Council of
Cumberland in fee, with the right to purchase or condemn such land on
either side or right of way as may be necessary to properly grade any
surface water on streams over or under said main, such condemnation to
be in the same manner and by the same proceedings as heretofore pro-
vided for railroad companies by the Acts of Assembly of 1896, Chapter
151, and by the Acts of Assembly of 1892, Chapter 657, Section 167A
(which should have been designated 167B).*

1922, ch. 96, sec. 73.

73. That the Mayor and City Council shall have and are hereby in-
vested with the full power and authority to enact and pass all ordinances
which from time to time they may deem necessary and proper to effect
the objects herein specified, and to regulate the introduction and use of
said water and the improvements thereof, and for the protection and
preservation of its works, machinery and property connected therewith,

*See art. 23, secs. 208-204, Annotated Code (1924 ed.).