3588 ARTICLE 16.

in all particulars be the same as is provided by said Section 203 of said
Article 23.

1896, ch. 179, sec. 3. 1912, ch. 790, sec. 618.

836. Said water board is hereby authorized and empowered to do all

acts necessary and proper to the carrying out the provisions of this act;
and said board shall have full control over the said water works, with
authority to employ such superintendents, workmen or other employees
as may be necessary or proper to carry on the same, and to purchase all

supplies and materials needed in constructing or conducting the same, and
also to provide rules and regulations for supplying the said town with
water, and to fix and establish from time to time a schedule of rates and
charges to be made and collected for the use of water by private consumers;

and the bailiff shall, as in case of other taxes, collect said charges, which
are hereby made a lien on the real estate upon which said water is fur-
nished, and pay over the same to the Mayor and council, who may allow
him therefor such additional compensation as they may deem reasonable;
and all moneys derived from water rents shall be used first, for the pay-
ment of the current expenses of said water works; secondly, for the pay-
ment of the interest when due on the bonds authorized by Laws, 1896,
ch. 179, to be issued; and, thirdly, as to any balance, to provide a sinking
fund for the payment of said bonds at their maturity; and the said water
board is hereby authorized and directed to make suitable provisions for
the protection of the property in said town from fire by providing a suit-
able number of fire plugs or public hydrants properly adapted to that pur-

pose and conveniently situated for use.

1896, ch. 179, sec. 4. 1912, ch. 790, sec. 519.

837. The title to said water works, and all lands, estates, water courses,

water ways, conduit pipes, machinery, and all other parts thereof what-
ever, and all property belonging and pertaining thereto shall, when com-

pleted or acquired vest in the Mayor and council of Rockville, and any
person who shall knowingly or wilfully pollute any spring, stream, brook,
water course or reservoir in connection with the said water works, so built

or erected, by throwing any impure or deleterious substance or thing into
the same, or by swimming, bathing or washing themselves, or by washing
clothes or any other unclean or impure thing therein, or by committing
any nuisance in or near the sources of supply or the reservoir for said
water works so as to pollute the same, shall, upon conviction of such' offense
be liable to a fine of not less than five nor more than fifty dollars for each
offense, to be recovered by the Mayor and council of Rockville before a
justice of the peace, as other fines are recoverable, one-half of such fine
to go to the informer, and the balance to the Mayor and council of Rock-
ville, for the purposes of said water works.

1914, ch. 812, sec. 1.

838. The Mayor and Council of Rockville is hereby authorized and
empowered to issue the bonds of said corporation for such sum, not to