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(e) To purchase or otherwise lawfully obtain the use of all machinery,
tools, appliances and agencies which, in their opinion, may be needed in
the performance of their duties under this Act.

(f) To acquire by gift, purchase, arbitration, exchange, lease or other
like methods of acquisition, or by condemnation, any land or property,
public, quasi-public or private, situated in Baltimore County or any ease-
ments, interest, privilege or franchise therein, which may be required for
any of the purposes of this Act; provided, however, that nothing in this
Act shall authorize the County Commissioners of Baltimore County to con-
demn any part of the water system of Baltimore City or any sources of
water supply owned by said city.

1922, ch. 526, sec. 2. B. Co. C. (1928), sec. 349.

349. Whenever fifty or more of the taxable inhabitants of Baltimore
County shall, in writing, petition the County Commissioners of Baltimore
County to install a water system or extend an existing water system into
and through an area in Baltimore County, to be definitely described in said
petition, the County Commissioners of Baltimore County shall thereupon
determine whether the public health, welfare and convenience requires the
construction or extension of a water system in and through the area de-
scribed in said petition; and if, in their judgment, the public health and
convenience does require the construction or the extension of a water sys-
tem into and through said area they shall immediately appoint three capa-
ble and upright citizens of Baltimore County, not residing within the area
to be served by the proposed new system or by the extension of an existing
system into said area, and not owning property in said area, who shall be
known as water examiners and who shall investigate and determine the
probable cost of constructing and establishing such system, and the names
of the property owners in the area to be served by the proposed water
system and the amount to which each will be actually benefited or damaged
thereby, and shall return such estimate and the probable cost, damage and
benefits to said County Commissioners. The County Commissioners shall
then assess the cost of constructing and establishing the proposed system
or the cost of constructing and establishing the extension to the existing-
system, as the case may be, upon the persons interested in proportion to
the amounts to which they are benefited or damaged thereby. And the
said County Commissioners of Baltimore County shall then cause notice
to be given to all persons assessed of the assessments respectively so made
on them by said County Commissioners by publication once in each of two
successive weeks in one or more newspapers published in Baltimore Coun-
ty, and of the day upon which objections to said assessments of benefits and
damages will be heard, such date to be not more than sixty days from the
date of the return of the examiners aforesaid. If any person interested
shall feel aggrieved by the assessment or award so made, he shall file in
writing with the said County Commissioners on or before the day set in
said notice for hearing objection to such assessments or awards, and the
said County Commissioners on the day so fixed shall hear testimony and