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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 49.
AN ACT to incorporate the Ruxton Water Works Company.

Preamble.

WHEREAS, The persons hereinafter mentioned are owners of
real estate or residents at Ruxton Park, in Baltimore county,
and they have constructed, for use of themselves, on their
several properties there, a small water-wheel, with the
necessary pipes and stand-pipes, and for their convenience in
taking care of them and not for profit, they wish to obtain
an incorporation, and are unable to do so under the general
laws relating to corporations, because Ruxton Park is not a
city or town, and they are now operating the works as an
unincorporated association under certain articles of associa-
tion, which are on record in Liber J. W. S., No. 173, folio
45, of the land records of Baltimore county.

Water com-
pany incor-
porated.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted, That William Pinkney Whyte,
Thomas W. Hall, R. Curzon Hoffman, Charles D. Fisher,
"William A. Fisher, Philip Hiss, D. Frank Maroney, J.
Harmanus Fisher, J. Tunstill Smith, Miss Fannie A. Bonn,
Mrs. Bertha E. Ahrens, Thomas K. Worthington, J. B. Noel
Wyatt, Frank Fisher and J. Delacy Evans, or such of them as
shall accept the benefits of this act of Assembly, their asso-
ciates and successors, be and they are hereby constituted a
corporation, with all the powers which can be acquired by any
water company incorporated under article twenty-three of the
Code of Public General Laws, title " Corporations," except
that the corporation hereby created shall have no power to
condemn land or other property, or to supply water except to
the corporators above named and others who own or may
hereafter own, or occupy, parts of the tract of land conveyed
by Sarah Ann Hiser to William A. Fisher and Charles D.
Fisher, and known as the Ruxton Park property, and that the
corporation is not to be operated for profit, but only for the
uses of such owners of property.

Corporate
powers

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That said corporation shall have
the right to make all by-laws; not inconsistent with law, and to
provide by laws or otherwise for the collection of all such
rates or charges for the use of the water as the directors of
the corporation may deem necessary to ensure the proper
operation, care, protection and repair of said works, and the
extension thereof within said property, and to enforce the
payment of the same by suits therefor, and by penalties and
forfeitures.