PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, GOVERNOR. 1059

expedient for carrying any system or systems of sewerage or
drainage, projected and adopted, into full effect and operation.
And the said Commission is hereby specifically empowered to con-
struct and.maintain, without compensation to the State any part
of a system or systems of sewerage or drainage of its works
or appurtenances, over or upon any land covered by the naviga-
ble waters of the state, the title to which is held by the State,
and if the same be deemed advisable by the said Commission, the
Governor of Maryland is hereby authorized and directed, upon
application of the said Commission, to execute and deliver to
the County Commissioners of Montgomery County such deed or
deeds as may be proper for the full confirmation of this grant.

(e) The power to incorporate with any system or system's
of sewerage or drainage, or otherwise utilize for the purpose of
this Act, so far as it may deem necessary or expedient, any or
all existing public sewers or drains, including storm water
sewers or drains, open ditches, natural channels or water courses
in Montgomery County, and any or all appurtenances, either
in their present condition or with such repairs, modifications
or changes as said Commissioners may see fit to make, and to
condemn, abolish, close up or destroy in its discretion, any or
all such existing sewers, drains, open ditches, natural channels
or water courses, and to alter their junctions or increase their
burdens as it may deem best.

(f) The power to acquire by condemnation, purchase or
otherwise, and to incorporate with any system or systems of
sewerage or drainage projected, constructed, established or
maintained in accordance with the provisions of this Act, such
private or municipal systems of sewerage or drainage existing
at the time of this Act, or hereafter establish, in such con-
dition as they may be, or with such repairs, changes, modifi-
cation as the Commission may see fit to order; or to compel the
repair, change or modification or connection of such private or
municipal system of sewerage or drainage with the County sys-
tem or systems; or to condemn for use, close up, or cause to be
abolished or removed in its discretion any private or municipal
system or systems of sewerage or drainage, the operation of
which in the opinion of the said Commission is harmful to public
health and welfare, or is a nuisance.

(g) The power to frame, promulgate, and enforce reason-
able rules and regulations for the supervision, protection, man-
agement and conduct of work done in connection with the con-