1410 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

(i) The power to enter into contract or to co-operate with
the County Commissioners of Montgomery County, or their
legally authorized agents, where the area or areas that may
be served by sewerage or drainage system or systems is located
partly in the two counties, and it is desired to plan, construct,
establish or maintain a sewerage or drainage system or systems
for such area or areas, or where for the purpose of treatment
and final disposition of sewerage or drainage from any system
or systems in Prince George's County, it is necessary or expe-
dient to locate a part of such system or systems within the
bounds of Montgomery County.

(j) The power to enter into contracts or co-operate with the
Commissioners of the District of Columbia or their legally au-
thorized agents where the area or areas that may be served by
a sewerage or drainage system or systems is located partly in
Prince George's County and partly in the District of Columbia
and it is desired to plan, construct, establish or maintain a sew-
erage system or systems for such area or areas; or when, for
the purpose of treatment and final disposition of sewerage and
drainage, it is necessary or expedient to carry sewerage or
drainage originating in one jurisdiction into the other or
through a sewerage or drainage system or systems, planned,
constructed, established or maintained by the other.

(k) The power to enter into contract or co-operate with a
private individual, corporation, or municipality, where any sys-
tem or systems or part of a system or systems of sewerage or
drainage about to be constructed by said individual, corpora-
tion, or municipality may be made to serve portions of a sewer-
age or drainage area or district not included within the bounds
of the property owned by said individual, corporation or munici-
pality.

(1) The power to condemn private property for public use
according to the provisions of the Public General Laws of Mary-
land relating thereto, including the rights to condemn land as
it is now done by railroads in this State.

(m) The power to appoint an engineer, to be known as the
Sanitary Engineer of Prince George's 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 Sanitary
Engineer shall be removable from office, only on sustained