MONTGOMERY COUNTY. 3605

(j) The power to enter into contracts or co-operate with the Commis-
sioners of the District of Columbia or their legally authorized agents where
the area or areas that may be served by a sewerage or drainage system or
systems is located partly in Montgomery County and partly in the Dis-
trict of Columbia and it is desired to plan, construct, establish or main-
tain a sewerage system or systems for such area or areas; or when, for
the purpose of treatment and final disposition of sewerage and drainage,
it is necessary or expedient to carry sewerage or drainage originating in
one jurisdiction into the other or through a sewerage or drainage system
or systems planned, constructed, established or maintained by the other.

(k) The power to enter into contract or co-operate with a private indi-
vidual, corporation or municipality, where any system or systems or part
of a system or systems of sewerage or drainage about to be constructed by
said individual, corporation, or municipality may be made to serve por-
tions of a sewerage or drainage area or district not included within the
bounds of the property owned by said individual, corporation or munic-
ipality.

(1) The power to condemn private property for public use to the pro-
visions of the Public General Laws of Maryland, relating thereto, includ-
ing the rights to condemn land as it is now done by railroads in this State.

(m) The power to appoint an engineer, to be known as the Sanitary
Engineer of Montgomery County, who shall hold office for the period of
four years, said Engineer, to be a person possessing the necessary technical
qualifications having had at least five years' experience in the practice of
civil engineering and skilled in the science of sanitary engineering. The
Sanitary Engineer shall be removable from office, only on sustained charges
of incompetence, malfeasance or misfeasance in office. The compensation
of the Sanitary Engineer shall not exceed the sum of $1,800.00 per an-
num. He shall act as Resident Engineer of the State Bureau of Sanitary
Engineering and shall co-operate with the said Bureau in such work as it
may undertake in the county, rendering to it, at such times, in such man-
ner and such form as it may prescribe, reports on the sanitary sewerage
and drainage conditions in said County.

(n) The power to appoint or employ such temporary professional or
iechnical experts or advisers, and such agents or employees, skilled or un-
skilled as may from time to time appear requisite for the proper execution
of any duty or duties imposed upon them by this Act, to fix their respec-
tive compensation; to remove or discharge such experts, advisors, agents,
or employees at pleasure; and to exact from them such indemnity bonds
for proper performance of their duties as they see fit.

(o) The power to purchase, hire, or otherwise lawfully obtain, the use
of all such machinery, tools, implements, appliances, supplies, material
and working agencies as it may need for its purposes; provided, however,
that this enumeration of special powers shall not be construed as restrict-
ing in any degree the scope of the general powers hereinbefore or herein-
after delegated to the said Commission.