WASHINGTON COUNTY. 4835

manent Board to be known as the "Board of Water Commissioners," who
shall qualify as other city officers, to consist of three citi/ens of Hagers-
town, freeholders therein who shall hold office, each for a period of three
years, or until his successor is appointed, except that the Mayor, in ap-
pointing the first board, shall name and designate one person to serve for
a term of one year, one person for a term of two years and one person for
a term of three years, and thereafter annually on or before the first day
of March in each and every year the appointment of one person shall be
made for a term of three years; said Commissioners shall be appointed at
such times and serve for such compensation and be governed and con-
trolled by such regulations as the Mayor and Council may, from time to
time, prescribe by ordinance agreeable to the terms and provisions of this
Act. The "Board of Water Commissioners" shall have charge of the
management of the plant, including the employment of a superintendent,
engineers, clerks and such other employees as may to said Board seem
necessary, the making of necessary repairs to said plant, changes therein,
and enlargement and extensions thereof, the fixing of all water rates, rents
and charges, the collection of said water rents and charges, the disburse-
ment of all moneys spent in the operation, repair, improvement and exten-
sion of said plant, and the performance of such other duties as may be
incident to said management; all water rates, rents and charges and all
enlargements and extensions of said plant to be first approved, however,
by the Mayor and Council of Hagerstown; and the said "Board of Water"
Commissioners" shall annually, on the first day of April, make a detailed
report to the said Mayor and Council of all of their proceedings in con-
nection with the management of said plant, and of the financial and mate-
rial condition of said plant, with such suggestions and recommendations,
to the Mayor and Council as may in their judgment seem necessary and
expedient for the successful management and development of said plant.

1918, ch. 58, sec. 4.

466. All sums of money collected from consumers of water shall be
immediately paid over to the Tax Collector of Hagerstown, and the money
so received shall constitute a separate fund to be kept by the Tax Col-
lector, to be known as the "Water Fund," and to be applied to the costs
and expenses incident to the operation, maintenance and extension of said
plant and to the payment of the interest and other fixed charges thereon
and toward the carrying out the provisions of this Act and such Ordi-
nances relating to said Water Plant as may be enacted from time to time
by the Mayor and Council of Hagerstown in conformity with this Act,
and to and for no other use or purpose whatsoever; said fund shall be
drawn by the "Board of Water Commissioners" for all purposes whatso-
ever properly chargeable to the water plant and the operation thereof by
warrant duly signed by the President of said Board and countersigned
either by the Secretary of said Board, or the Superintendent of the Water
Plant, as may be ordered by said Board.