54 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 27

said town, and to contract for the purchase in fee simple
or lease for a term of years, renewable at their pleasure,
any land, real estate, springs, brooks, water courses,
streams, and to use and occupy forever or for a term of
years any land, real estate, springs, brooks, water courses
or streams which they may deem expedient and necessary
for the purposes of furnishing said town with water, and
they are hereby invested with all the rights and powers
necessary for the induction of water into the said town.
If for any cause the said Mayor and Council of Grantsville
shall be unable to agree with any owner of real or leasehold
property, springs, brooks, water streams or water courses
or any other material which partakes of or is a necessary
part of realty, or for any right of way which they may find
necessary for the conduct of said water system in its en-
tirety into or in said town, or if such owner is under any
disability or incapacity to contract or absent out of the
county or unknown, the said Mayor and Council of Grants-
ville is hereby clothed with the power of condemnation
under the right of eminent domain as provided in the Public
General Laws of Maryland as fully as if the provisions of
said laws had been herein incorporated. The said Mayor
and Council of Grantsville shall have full power to fix
schedules of rates for furnishing water and sewerage to
private residences and other buildings, and the said Mayor
and Council shall have power to collect the same as other
taxes are collected and the income thereof shall be applied
first, for expenses and maintenance and afterwards for the
payment of the interest on the bonds and a sinking fund to
meet the bonds at maturity.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the title to said
water works, and all land, estates and water courses, water-
ways, conduits, pipes, machinery and all other parts thereto
shall, when completed or acquired, vest in the Mayor and
Council of Grantsville; and every person who shall know-
ingly or wilfully pollute any spring, streams, brooks, water
course, reservoir or standpipe in connection with the said
water works so built or constructed by throwing any im-
pure or deleterious substance or thing into the same, or by
swimming, bathing or washing themselves, or by washing
clothes or any other thing therein, or by committing any
nuisance in or near the sources of supply of the reservoir
or standpipe for said water works, so as to pollute the same
shall, upon conviction of such offense, be liable to a fine of
not less than twenty-five dollars, nor more than three hun-
dred dollars for each offense, to be recovered by the Mayor