642 ARTICLE 3.

tested by the Chief Clerk and Auditor of said Commissioners and sealed
with the seal of the Board of County Commissioners of Baltimore County,
shall have the force and effect of law, and any person violating the pro-
visions of any such rules, order and regulation shall be deemed guilty of
a misdemeanor and shall be subject to a fine of not less than five dollars
nor more than one hundred dollars, to be enforced and collected as other
fines are enforced and collected under the laws of this State.

The power to establish sewerage or drainage systems in and for said
county so delegated to said Commissioners shall include the power to do
all things which may be necessary or incident thereto, among which
powers shall be the following, that is to say:

(a) The power to make all such preliminary investigations and to do
all such preliminary work as should in the opinion of the said Commis-
sioners precede the actual construction, establishment or projection of any
system or systems of sewerage or drainage in Baltimore County.

(b) To project, construct, adopt and maintain any such system or sys-
tems of sewerage as it may deem best calculated to promote and preserve
the public health and welfare.

(e) To employ only for such period or periods as may be requisite and
necessary, a capable engineer, said engineer to be a person skilled in the
science of sanitary engineering, and to appoint or employ such other pro-
fessional or technical experts or advisers and such agents or employees
skilled or unskilled as they deem requisite for the proper execution of the
duties imposed upon them by this Act, or any of them, to fix their respec-
tive compensation and to remove or discharge such experts, advisers,
agents or employees at pleasure, and to exact from them such indemnity
bonds for the performance of their respective duties as they deem proper.

(d) To construct and establish all such local, district, lateral, intercept-
ing, outfall or other sewers, and all such conduits, drains, and pumping
or other plants, and all such buildings, structures, works, apparatus or
agencies, and to lay all such mains and pipes and to create or use, or
create and use, all such instrumentalities and means, within the County
of Baltimore, including submerged as well as other lands, as it may deem
expedient for carrying said system of sewerage, projected and adopted as
aforesaid, into full effect.

(e) To incorporate with said system of sewerage or otherwise utilize
for the purpose of this Act, so far as it may deem expedient, any or all
existing public sewers or drains, including storm-water sewers and drains,
in the County of Baltimore, and any or all of their appurtenances, either
in their present condition or with such repairs, modifications or changes
as said Commissioners may see fit to make, and to condemn, close up,
abolish, in its discretion, any or all such existing public sewers and drains,
or to alter their functions, or to increase their burdens, as it may think
best.

(f) To frame, promulgate and enforce such reasonable rules and regu-
lations for the supervision, protection, management and conduct of the