4746 ARTICLE 22.

four persons of proper personal qualifications, who, together with the
Burgess, shall constitute and be a Water Board, and shall have charge
of the construction and management and maintenance of said Water
Distribution System. They shall appoint from their own number a treas-
urer, who shall give bond to be approved both as to amount and sureties
by said Water Board for the faithful performance of his duties as such
Treasurer. The said Treasurer shall receive the proceeds of sale of said
bonds or any other money which may be received on account of said
Water Distribution System, shall deposit the same in a bank to be desig-
nated by said Water Board, in the name of the "Water Board of Funks-
town," and shall disburse the same on orders of said Water Board by
check to be signed by himself and by the Burgess of said town. The said
Water Board is hereby vested with all the rights and powers necessary
for the introduction of water in said town, including the authority to
contract with any water company, persons or corporations, to furnish
water sufficient to supply the needs of said town. If from any cause
said Water Board shall be unable to agree with any owner of real or
leasehold estate, for any right of way which they may find necessary for
conduits for said water to enter in and distribute through said town, or
if such owner is under any disability or incapacity to contract, or absent
or unknown, the said Water Board is hereby clothed with power of con-
demnation under the right of eminent domain, as now provided by the
Code of Public General Laws of Maryland as fully as if said provisions
had been herein incorporated. The said Water Board shall have power
to enter into contracts for building said water distribution system, to con-
tract for material therefor, to employ all necessary labor and clerks and
to fix their compensation. They shall make such other necessary rules
and regulations for the construction, management and maintenance of
said Water Distribution System. They shall establish rates for water
service, and shall make a semi-annual report of their proceedings and of
the condition of said system to the Burgess and Commissioners of Funks-
town. The four persons appointed to said Water Board shall be appointed
for the term of one, two, three and four years, respectively, as to the first
appointees, and their successors shall be appointed for the term of four-
years. Any member of the Water Board shall be eligible for reappoint-
ment, and the Burgess of said town for the time being shall always be
ex officio a member of said Water Board.

1929, ch 67, sec. 6.

226. The titles to said Water Distribution System, with all the land,,
conduits, privileges, franchises and materials thereto appertaining shall
vest in said Water Board of Funkstown in its corporate capacity.

HAGERSTOWN.

P. L. L, 1888, Art. 22, sec. 152. 1884, ch. 58.

227. The inhabitants of Hagerstown, in Washington county, are created
a corporation by the name of "The Mayor and Council of Hagerstown,"
and by that name shall have perpetual succession; may sue and be sued;