3954 ARTICLE 17.

one for four years, shall on the organization of the board draw lots for their
several terms, and at the expiration of each term of office the Mayor and
City Council shall elect a person to serve three years, and a vacancy by
death, resignation or removal from the town to be filled by the Mayor,
subject to confirmation by the City Council; and said Water Board shall
organize within thirty days after the adoption of this Act by the people,
by electing a president, secretary and treasurer, and shall keep a record
of their proceedings, which shall be open to public inspection. The said
Water Board of Laurel shall have full power to fix schedules of rates for
furnishing water to private residences and other buildings, and also in
case of the purchase or construction of an electric light plant shall have
like power to fix schedules of rates for lighting residences and other build-
ings, and the said Mayor and City Council shall have power to collect
the same as other taxes are collected, and the income thereof shall be
applied as above indicated, first for expenses and maintenance, and after-
wards for the payment of interest and sinking fund to meet the bonds at
maturity.

1900, ch. 169, sec. 4. 1912 Code, sec. 420.

677. The title to said water works and all lands, estates and water-
courses, waterways, conduits, pipes, machinery and all other parts there-
to shall, when completed or acquired, vest in the Mayor and City Council
of Laurel; and every person who shall knowingly or wilfully pollute any
spring, stream, brook, watercourse, reservoir or standpipe in connection
with the said water works so built or constructed 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 or standpipe 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 fifty dollars, nor more than five hundred dollars, for each offense, to
be recovered by the "Mayor and City Council of Laurel before a justice of
the peace, as other fines are recoverable, or to imprisonment in the county
jail or the House of Correction for a term of not less than six months, nor
more than three years, or both fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of
the justice of the peace, one-half of such fine to go to the informer and
the balance to the Mayor and City Council of Laurel, for the purpose
of this Act. And the title to any electric plant, real estate, poles, wires,
machinery and appurtenances thereto belonging, which may be purchased
from the proceeds of the sale of the bonds herein provided to be issued shall
vest in the said Mayor and City Council, and any person who shall know-
ingly or wilfully damage, destroy, do or suffer anything to be done to said
plant, poles, wires, machinery or appurtenances, which will in any way
interfere with or retard the free and perfect operation of the same shall,
upon conviction of such offense, be liable to a fine of not less than fifty
dollars, nor more than five hundred dollars, or to imprisonment in the
county jail or the House of Correction, for a term of not less than six