LAWS OF MARYLAND.

alleys, roads, and ways, and all other buildings, structures,
erections, or improvements of every description, on, over, or
under, land, or other property, or any interest, franchise, ease-
ment, right or privilege therein, and in like manner to acquire
any corporate franchises or any other thing including earth,
timber, stone, or other materials, or places of temporary or
permanent deposit for excavated material or other like facili-
ties for effectuating the objects of this Act, of any sort that
may be required for the purposes of this Act; and generally to
do and perform all and every such acts or things which, by
anything short of a palpably forced construction, could be held
to be auxiliary or conducive to the proper 'exercise of any, or
all, of the powers by this Act conferred upon the Mayor and
City Council of Baltimore, or to the effective accomplishment of
the leading purpose of this Act, namely, the collection, accumu-
lation and maintenance of an ample supply of water in said
main reservoir or lake, and its transmission and distribution in
as abundant, clear, pure, healthful, convenient and satisfac-
tory a character as possible to the city of Baltimore, and its
inhabitants, and such other persons as may now or hereafter
be lawfully supplied with water by the city of Baltimore for its
and their uses. The title, acqired by condemnation, or other-
wise, by the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, under this
Act, for the purposes thereof, shall, as to land, or other prop-
erty, or things required for said main reservoir or lake, or for
subsidiary reservoifs, lakes, ponds or basins, or for said water
sheds or reserves, or for surface buildings, erections, struc-
tures, works or things of a permanent character, involving the
idea of exclusive use and occupation by the Mayor and City
Council of Baltimore, be in fee simple, but may, as to land, or
other property, or things, required for other purposes under
this Act, be in fee simple, or limited to some lesser quantum
of interest, in point of estate, or duration, accordingly as the
Mayor and City Council of Baltimore may determine.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the County Commis-
sioners of Baltimore county, or of any other county, whose
interests in any respect may become involved in the execution
of this Act, or any part or parts, thereof, or any body politic,
quasi-public corporation, turnpike company, or private cor-
poration, whose interest in any respect may become involved
in the execution of this Act, or any part, or parts, thereof, shall
be, and is, or are hereby authorized and empowered, anything
in the terms of their or its chartered existence or powers, to
the contrary notwithstanding, to enter into all such contracts,
agreements, stipulations or arrangements, deeds, conveyances
or transfers with the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore as