PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, GOVERNOR. 1061

(m) The power to appoint an engineer, to be known as the

Sanitary Engineer of Montgomery County, who shall hold office
for the period of four years, said Engineer to be a person
possessing the necessary technical qualifications having had
at least five years experience in the practice of civil engineering
and skilled in the science of sanitary engineering. The Sani-
tary Engineer shall be removable from office, only on sustained
charges of incompetence, malfeasance or misfeasance in office,
The compensation of the Sanitary Engineer shall not exceed the

sum of $1,800.00 per annum. He shall act as Resident En-
gineer of the State Bureau of Sanitary Engineering and shall
co-operate with the said Bureau in such work as it may under-
take in the County, rendering to it, at such times, in such man-
ner and such form as it may prescribe, reports on the sanitary
sewerage and drainage conditions in said County.

(n) The power to appoint or employ such temporary pro-
fessional or technical experts or advisers, and such agents
or employees, skilled or unskilled as may from time to time
appear requisite for the proper execution of any duty or duties
imposed upon them by this Act, to fix their respective compensa-
tion; to remove or discharge such experts, advisors, agents,
or employees at pleasure; and to exact from them such indem-
nity bonds for proper performance of their duties as they see
fit.

(o) The power to purchase, hire, or otherwise lawfully

obtain, the use of all such machinery, tools, implements, appli-
ances, supplies, material and working agencies as it may need
for its purposes; provided, however, that this enumeration of
special powers shall not be construed as restricting in any

degree the scope of the general powers hereinbefore or herein-
after delegated to the said Commission.

468-C. Be it further enacted, That for the purpose of this
Act, the following definitions shall apply to the interpretation of
the following words and phrases:

(a) Sewerage: All human and animal excretions, street
wash, domestic and manufacturing waste, when carried by wa-
ter, either in suspension or solution.

(b) Sewerage System: All the agencies, methods, appliances
or operations, natural or artificial, singly or combined, that
enter into the collection, transportation, treatment and final

disposition of sewerage.