360 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 197

all such rules, orders and regulations shall be recorded in the
Record of the Proceedings of said Commissioners, signed by '
them and attested by the Chief Clerk and Auditor of said Com-
missioners and sealed with the seal of the Board of County
Commissioners of Baltimore County, shall have the force and
effect of law, and any person violating the provisions of any
such rule, order and regulation shall be deemed guilty of a
misdemeanor and shall be subject to a fine of not less than five
nor more than one hundred dollars, to be enforced and collected
as other fines are enforced and collected under the laws of this
State.

The power to establish sewerage or drainage systems in and
for said County so delegated to said Commissioners shall in-
clude the power to do all things which may be necessary or
incident thereto, among which powers shall be the following,
that is to say:

(a) The power to make all such preliminary investigations
and to do all such preliminary work as should in the opinion
of the said Commissioners precede the actual construction,
establishment or projection of any system or systems of sew-
erage or drainage in Baltimore County.

(b) To project, construct, adopt and maintain any such
system or systems of sewerage as it may deem best calculated
to promote and preserve the public health and welfare.

(c) To employ only for such period or periods as may be
requisite and necessary, a capable engineer, said engineer to be
a person skilled in the science of sanitary engineering, and to
appoint or employ such other professional or technical experts
or advisers and such agents or employees skilled or unskilled
as they deem requisite for the proper execution of the duties
imposed upon them by this Act, or any of them, to fix their
respective compensation and to remove or discharge such ex-
perts, advisors, agents or employes at. pleasure, and to exact
from them such indemnity bonds for the performance of their
respective duties as they deem proper.

(d) To construct and establish all such local, district, lat-
eral, intercepting, outfall or other sewers, and all such con-
duits, drains and pumping or other plants, and all such build-
ings, structures, works, apparatus or agencies, and to lay all
such mains and pipes and to create or use, or create and use,
all such instrumentalities and means, within the County of
Baltimore, including submerged as well as other lands, as it