ELIHU E. JACKSON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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such powers are specially herein mentioned or not, and the said

mayor and councilmen of Frostburg are hereby authorized and

empowered to pass all ordinances necessary and proper to enable

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the said water board to carry out the provisions hereof; and any

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corporation owning any rights, privileges, property or franchise

necessary or proper to be purchased by said mayor and council-

men in order to carry this act into effect, is hereby authorized

and empowered to sell and dispose of, grant and convey, such

rights, privileges, property or franchise to said mayor and coun-

cilmen of Frostburg.

SEC. 15. And be it enacted, That it shall be unlawful for any

person or persons to wilfully pollute any stream, spring, brook,

reservoir or water-course or other source or any means of water

supply of said town, through the works so built, erected or im-

proved by the said water board under this act by throwing any

dead animals or impure substance into the same, or by swimming,

bathing or washing themselves, or by washing clothes, or the

skins of dead animals, or any other impure thing therein, or by

committing any nuisance in or so near said water as to pollute
the same; and it shall also be unlawful for any person designedly

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to injure the said water-works or any part thereof, or to obstruct

the passage of water therein, and it shall further be unlawful f or

any person not being a water renter at the time to meddle with

the water-works or with the pipes, hydrants or other parts thereof,

and any person offending against any of the provisions of this

section shall be liable to a fine of not less than five nor more than

fifty dollars for each offense, to be recovered by the mayor and

councilmen of the said town before a justice of the peace as other

fines are recoverable.

SEC. 16. And be it enacted, That the title to said water-works

and all lands, estates, water-courses, water-ways, conduit pipes,

machinery and all other part or parts thereof whatsoever, and all

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property belonging and pertaining thereto, shall on the comple-

tion thereof rest in the mayor and councilmen of Frostburg.

SEC. 17. And be it enacted, That the said water board shall have

full control over the said water-works with authority to employ

such superintendents, workmen, servants and other employees as

Employ.

may be necessary or proper to carry on the same and to purchase

all supplies and materials needed in conducting the same, and

with authority to provide rules and regulations for supplying the

citizens of said town with water, and to fix and establish from

time to time a schedule of rates and charges to be made and col-

Rates.

lected for the use of said water, and the bailiff shall as in case of

other taxes, collect said charges (which are hereby made a lien on

the real estate upon which said water is furnished,) and pay over

the same to the mayor and councilmen who may allow him there

for such additional compensation as they shall deem reasonable