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that the sewerage may be taken from the waters of Severn River and
the tributaries thereof, and to that end they are hereby fully empowered
to condemn the necessary land either within or without the city limits
under the provisions of the Code of Public General Laws of the State of
Maryland relating to condemnation of land by corporations, and are fully
authorized to construct said sewerage disposal plant in connection with the
federal owners and the State of Maryland in order that the sewerage of
the City of Annapolis, the State Buildings, the United States Naval
Academy and the United States Naval Hospital may all be carried into
said sewerage disposal plant. And after the building and completion
of said sewerage disposal plant the Mayor, Counselor and Aldermen of
the City of Annapolis are fully authorized and empowered to prohibit or
regulate by ordinance or otherwise the disposal or dumping of garbage,
dirt or filth of any kind in the waters of the Severn River or the tributaries
thereof.

ANNAPOLIS WATER COMPANY CHARTER.

1865, ch. 123. 1914 Code, sec. 105.

87. George W. Taylor, Alexander Randall, John R. Magruder, R, R.
Magruder, Alexander B. Hagner, William H. Tuck, James R. Howi-
son, James D. Davenport, D. B. A. Vanderkeift, Thomas Ireland, Pass-
more McCullough, Ann R. Vorrhees, Hester A. Chase, and all such per-
sons as shall associate with them by becoming stockholders in the man-
ner hereinafter provided, their successors and assigns, are hereby made
and constituted a body politic and corporate, by the name, style and
title of the "Annapolis Water Company," and by that name shall have
perpetual succession, and shall be capable in law to sue and be sued,
to plead and be impleaded, to answer and be answered, in any Court
of law or equity, to make and use a common seal, and to alter the same,
and generally to do and perform all such acts, and make all such agree-
ments and contracts, and to purchase, lease, hold, use and possess such
lands, water rights, powers and privileges, tenements and heredita-
ments, goods and chattels, as may be necessary for collecting streams
of water, elevating, preserving, using and distributing the same as the
means of abundantly supplying with pure water the public and pri-
vate houses, streets, squares, lanes, alleys and other places in the city of
Annapolis and its precincts, and thereby also to prevent the destruction of
public and private property by fire, and for properly disposing of the said
water, and such other powers as may be necessary to carry into effect the
purposes of this Act; provided, the said company shall not possess or hold
at any one time, real and personal estate together above the value of one
hundred thousand dollars, without the consent of the General Assembly.

The several persons named above, or a majority of them, may cause
books to be opened at such times and places as they may direct, giving
public notice thereof, for the purpose of receiving subscriptions to the
capital stock of the said company, which shall be divided into shares of
fifty dollars each, and be limited to two thousand shares, and that the