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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

county, and shall be filed by the clerk of said court,

File inquisition

and shall be confirmed by said court at the term next

succeeding the filing thereof with said clerk, unless

sufficient cause to the contrary be shown, and when

comfirmed, shall be recorded by said clerk at the cost

of said corporation, and if any objections be filed to

such confirmation, they shall stand for hearing within

the first ten days of the first term of court after said

inquisition is returned, and if said inquisition is set

aside, said court may direct another inquisition to issue

as is practiced in other condemnation cases.

SEC. 10. And be it enacted, That every such inqui-

sition shall describe the property taken, and the

bounds of the lands condemned, and the quantity or

duration of the interest condemned for the corpor-

Describe prop-
erty and bounds

ation, and such valuation, when paid or tendered to

the owner of said property, or his attorneys, shall en-

title said corporation to the estate and property so

valued as fully as if the same had been conveyed by

the owner thereof.

SEC. 11. And be it enacted, That the commissioners

hereinbefore named, or a majority of them, are hereby

All sets neces-
sary.

authorized and empowered to do all acts necessary

and proper to the carrying out of the provisions of this

act, whether such powers are specifically herein men-

tioned or not, and the mayor and councilmen of said

town are hereby authorized and empowered to pass

Pass proper or-
dinances.

all ordinances necessary or proper upon their part to

the carrying out of the provisions hereof, and any cor-

poration owning any rights, privileges, property or

franchises necessary or proper to be purchased by said

commissioners, 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 franchises to said commissioners for said mayor and

councilmen of Frostburg.

SEC. 12. And be it enacted, That it shall be unlaw-

ful for any person or persons to wilfully pollute any

Unlawful.

stream, brook, spring, reservoir, water course or other

source, or means of water supply of said town, through

the works so built, erected, purchased or improved by

the commissioners under this act, by throwing any

dead animal or other 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