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pounding, storing, protecting, clarifying, purifying, transmit-
ting or distributing, or otherwise handling, water that may
be necessary or proper for the purpose of promoting or secur-
ing the full working efficiency and utility of said reservoir, or
lake for the objects for which it is intended by this Act; to
incorporate with said reservoir or lake and its appurtenances,
for the purposes of this Act, all, or any part, or parts of Loch
Raven and its appurtenances or environs, or all or any part, or
parts, of Lake Roland and its appurtenances or environs, to
utilize, extend, enlarge, reinforce, adapt, reconstruct, alter, re-
equip or repair, for the purposes of this Act, or for other pur-
poses affecting the municipal water supply of Baltimore city,
all, or any part, or parts, of the present water system of Bal-
timore city and its appurtenances; to appoint or employ such
professional or technical advisers and experts and such agents,
assistants, clerks, employes, including all members of the police
service hereinafter mentioned, and laborers, skilled or un-
skilled, of all kinds, as it may deem requisite for the due and
proper execution of this Act, and to fix their respective compen-
sations, and to remove and discharge them at its pleasure (ex-
cept such highly trained, experienced or skilled individuals as
it may appoint or employ upon special terms for definite and
fixed periods of time) and to exact from them such indemnity
bonds for the proper performance of their respective duties as
it may deem proper; to purchase, hire or otherwise lawfully
obtain the use of all such machinery, apparatus, tools, imple-
ments, appliances, supplies, materials and working agencies as
it may need for the purposes of this Act; to make and enter
into any and all contracts, agreements or stipulations germane
to the scope of its powers under this Act; to make all such
preliminary surveys and investigations, and to do all such pre-
liminary work under this Act as it may be advised shall be nec-
essary or proper for the purposes of this Act; to acquire by gift,
purchase, arbitration, exchange, lease, whatever the duration
of the lease, or other like methods of acquisition, or by con-
demnation, any land or property, public, quasi public, or pri-
vate, situated wholly or partly in Baltimore county or in Bal-
timore city, or situated wholly or partly in Anne Arundel
county or- in any other county of this State, or any interest,
franchise, easement, right or privilege therein, which may be
required for any of the purposes of this Act, including springs,
brooks, creeks, rivulets, rivers or other water courses, mills,
factories, and industrial plants of every description, and their
appurtenances, workshops, stores, farm buildings, structures,
and erections, churches, grave yards, school houses, or, other
school property, dwelling houses, out houses, bridges, streets,