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right of way which they may find necessary for conduits
for said water to enter in and distribute through said town,
or beyond the corporate limits of 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 condemnation 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 make
rules and regulations for the construction, erection, man-
agement and maintenance of sa4d water works and water
distribution system and shall establish rates for water
service, and may, with the approval of the Burgess and
Commissioners, establish the same rates or different rates
for water service and for water supplied to persons and
corporations beyond the corporate limits, and shall make
semi-annual reports of their proceedings and of the condi-
tion of said water works and water distribution system to
the Burgess and Commissioners of Williamsport; they shall
have power to enter into contracts for building said water
works and water distribution system, to contract for ma-
terial therefor, to employ all necessary labor and clerks,
and to fix their compensation, and the four persons ap-
pointed 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 reappointment, and the Burgess
of said town for the time being shall always be ex-officio a
member of said Water Board.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall
take effect June 1, 1933.

Approved April 21, 1933.

CHAPTER 294.

AN ACT to repeal Section 120 of Article 6 of the Code of
Public Local Laws of Maryland (1930 Edition), title
"Caroline County, " sub-title "County Treasurer, " and to
enact in lieu thereof fifteen new sections to be known as