ART. 12.] GARRETT COUNTY. 839

duction of water into the said town, and the maintenance of
said sewerage system. If for any cause the said Mayor and
Town Council of Oakland shall be unable to agree with any
owner of real or leasehold property, springs, brooks, water
streams or water courses, or any other material which partakes
of or is a necessary part of realty, or for any right of way
which they may find necessary for the conduct of said water
and sewerage in its entry into or in said town, or if such owner
is under any disability or incapacity to contract or absent out
of the county or unknown, the said Mayor and Town Council of
Oakland is hereby clothed with the power of condemnation under
the right of eminent domain as provided in section 251 of article
23 of the Code of Public General Laws of Maryland as fully
as if said section had been herein incorporated, and their man-
ner of procedure of condemnation for the purposes of this Act
shall in all particulars be the same as if provided by said sec-
tion 251 of said article 23. The said Mayor and Town Council
of Oakland shall have full power to fix schedules of rates for
furnishing water and sewerage to private residences and other
buildings, and the said Mayor and Town Council shall have
power to collect the same as other taxes are collected and the
income thereof shall be applied, first, for expenses and mainte-
nance and afterwards for the payment of the interest on the
bonds and a sinking fund to meet the bond at maturity.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the title to said water works
and sewerage, and all land, estates and water courses, water-
ways, conduits, pipes, machinery and all other parts thereto
shall, when completed or acquired, vest in the Mayor and Town
Council of Oakland; and every person who shall knowingly or
wilfully pollute any spring, streams, brooks, water course,
reservoir or standpipe in connection with the said water works
so built or constructed by throwing any impure or deleterious
substance or thing into the same, or by swimming, bathing or
washing themselves, or by washing clothes or any other thing
therein, or by committing any nuisance in or near the sources
of supply or the reservoir or standpipe for said water works, so
as to pollute the same shall, upon conviction of such offense, be
liable to a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars, nor more
than three hundred dollars for each offense, to be recovered by
the Mayor and Town Council of Oakland before a justice of the
peace, as other fines are recovered, or to imprisonment in the
county jail or in the House of Correction for a term of not less
than six months nor more than eighteen months, or both fine
and imprisonment, in the discretion of the justice of the peace,
one-half of such fine to go to the informer, and the balance to