650 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Act, or for other purposes affecting the municipal water
supply of Baltimore city, all, or any part or parts, of the
present water system of Baltimore city, or its appurtenances;
and to issue its stock to an amount not exceeding five million
dollars for the purposes of this Act.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore be and it
is hereby authorized and empowered to convert the entire
valley or basin of the Gunpowder river, in Baltimore county,
and its dependencies, or so much thereof as may be necessary
for the .purposes of this Act, from the present dam, at the
lower end of Loch Eaven, in said county, to the upper end of
the village of Phoenix, in said county, or to such point above
said village, as may be necessary or proper for the purposes of
this Act, into a reservoir or basin for augmenting and improv-
ing the municipal water supply of the city of Baltimore; to
create, establish and maintain said reservoir or lake and its
appurtenances, and to conduct the waters of said reservoir or
lake, along such route, or routes, and in such manner, and by
such instrumentalities and means, as may be necessary or
proper for the purposes of this Act, including such works, and
their appurtenances at Lake Roland, and at or near Baltimore
city, as may be necessary or proper for the purposes of this Act,
to the city of Baltimore and its environs for the use of said
city, and of its inhabitants, and of such other persons as may
now or hereafter be lawfully furnished with water by said city,
to utilize, appropriate, divert, deflect, straighten, riprap, or
otherwise modify or control, for the purposes of this Act, all
springs, brooks, creeks, rivulets, rivers or other water courses,
tributary (or capable of being rendered tributary) to or, ob-
structive of, the purposes of this Act; to, create, establish, set
apart and maintain, regulate and protect, afforest or other-
wise improve water sheds and reservations along, and to such
full extent of adjacency as may be necessary for the purposes
of this Act, adjacent to the waters of said reservoir or lake,
for securing a pure, copious, and constant flow of water into
said reservoir or lake, to create, establish and maintain, con-
struct, erect, lay, lay out and employ all such dams, walls, bulk-
heads, dykes, inlets, waste ways, water gates, bridges, tunnels,
aqueducts, water ways, conduits, culverts, drains, mains, pipes,
settling or other reservoirs, lakes, basins or ponds, power houses,
pump houses or other buildings, structures or erections, roads,
ways, approaches, appurtenances, agencies, instrumentalities or
means, as may be necessary or proper, for the purposes of this
Act, including all instrumentalities or means for diverting,
deflecting, disposing of, controlling, collecting, confining, im-