408 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 205

Aldermen of the City of Annapolis, and wtho shall serve as such
director for the time for which he has been elected as such Alder-
man. A fourth person of capability and fitness, a resident and
citizen of the City of Annapolis, to supervise and look after the
general operations of the Water Company, who shall not be a
member of the municipal corporation of Annapolis, shall prompt-
ly upon the approval of this act, be appointed by the Mayor of
the City of Annapolis as a director of the Annapolis Water
Company for the term of four years from the last Mbnday in
Miarch, 1918, and every four years thereafter the appointment
to such office shall be so made for each succeeding four years
period, and the person so appointed shall act as President
of the Company. A fifth person, also a resident and citizen of
Annapolis, and who shall also not be a nuember of the said
municipal corporation, shall be elected by the Mlayor, Counselor
and Aidermen for a term of four years beginning the last
Monday in March, in the year 1920, upon the expiration of
the term of Charles G. Feldmeyer, one of the present directors.
At the expiration of the term of the two last named directors,
or in case of the death or resignation of either of them, their
successors shall be appointed, or elected as the case may be, as
hereinbefore provided. The said Board of Directors is hereby
invested with full and ample power to manage the Annapolis
Water Company according to its best judgment, and to adopt
and enforce all needful rules and regulations for the govern-
ment of such employees as it raay find necessary and expedient
to have, and for the care and physical operation of the plant
of the said Water Company in the interests of the health, com-
fort and proper material requirements of the people of the City
of Annapolis, and shall have full charge of the development,
maintenance and operations of the plant as a municipal prop-
erty; provided, however, tfoat the salaries of the members of
the said Board of Directors, respectively, and of its employees,
shall not be increased over the salaries now paid without the
express authority of the Mayor, Counselor and Aidermen of
the City of Annapolis. And provided, further, that no ex-
penditure of money such as would be required for a filtration
plant, or any expenditure in excess of two thousand dollars,
may be made by the said Water Company without the approval
of the Mayor, Counselor and Aldermen of the City of An-
napolis being first had and obtained. Provided, further, that
the said Mayor, Counselor and Aldermen of the City of An-
napolis shall submit the question of whether or not a filtration
plant shall be installed as part of the Annapolis water works