HOWARD COUNTY. 899

agree with any owner or owners of real estate, leasehold prop-
erty, 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 in its entry into or in said city,
or if such owner is under any disability or incapacitated to
contract, or absent out of the country or unknown, the said
Mayor and City Council, is hereby clothed with power of con-
demnation 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 incor-
porated, and their manner of procedure for the purposes of
this Act shall in all particulars be the same as is provided by
said Section 251 of said Article 23. The said Mayor and City
Council shall have the power to fix schedules of rates for fur-
nishing water to private residences and other buildings, and
to collect said water rents in the same manner as other taxes
are collected, and the income thereof shall be applied, first,
for expenses and maintenance, and afterwards for the payment
of the interest to accrue on the bonds and a sinking fund to
meet the bonds as they severally fall due.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the title to said water
works, and all land, estates and water courses, conduits, pipes,
machinery and all other parts thereto, shall, when completed
or acquired, vest in the Mayor and City Council of Ellicott
City; and any person who shall knowingly or wilfully pollute
any spring, stream, brook, water course, reservoir or standpipe
in connection with the water works so to be 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 in any other way polluting, or by com-
mitting 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 one hun-
dred dollars for each offense, to be recovered by the Mayor and
City Council of Ellicott City by a proper action brought
before a Justice of the Peace, as other fines are collected, or
to imprisonment in the Howard County jail or in the House of
Correction for a term of not less than three months nor more
than one year, 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 the Mayor and City Council of
Ellicott City for the purposes of this Act.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That for purposes of redeeming
said bonds at their maturity and for securing the prompt pay-
ment of the interest thereon, the Mayor and City Council of