EMERSON C. HARRINGTON, GOVERNOR. 407

napolis Water Company and the same is now owned by the said
City of Annapolis and operated as a public utility by the cor-
poration thereof; and

WHEREAS, At the time of the passage of the said Chapter 86
of the Acts of 1912 the said City did not own. the entire stock
of the Annapolis Water Company, and Section 2 of the said
Act, providing for the future management of the Company by
a board of three directors to be chosen by the holder or holders
of a majority of the stock of the said Annapolis Water Com-
pany was enacted in view of the peculiar situation then exist-
ing, and could not make thorough and proper provision for
such efficient management of the property as a part of the
municipal administration as is now possible; and

WHEREAS, It is expedient and advantageous that the City
Counselor, the legal representative and adviser of the corpora-
tion, and one other member of said municipal corporation
should be directors of the Annapolis Water Company, in addi-
tion to the Mayor of the City of Annapolis for the time being-
and the other two directors as hereinafter provided.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by ike General Assembly, of Mary-
land, That Section 2 of Chapter 86 of the Acts of the General
Assembly of Maryland of 1912, entitled "An Act to amend
the charter of the Annapolis Water Company, as said charter
was enacted by Chapter 123 of the Acts of the General Assem-
bly of Maryland of 1865, by extending the powers of the said
company to hold real and personal property, providing for the
management of the said company by a board of directors and
making other changes in said charter,'' be and the same is here-
by repealed and re-enacted with amendments so as to read as
follows:

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the said Annapolis Water
Company shall be managed by a board of five directors, one of
whom shall be the person who may be Mayor of the City of An-
napolis, and who shall serve as such director during his term of
office as Mayor; one of whom shall be the person who may be
City Counselor of the City of Annapolis, and who shall serve
as such director during the time for which he has been elected
as such City Counselor; one of whom, shall be an alderman of
the municipal corporation of Annapolis, of the opposite politi-
cal party of the majority of the said municipal corporation, who
shall be elected by said corporation, the Mayor, Counselor and