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mission, and shall receive such compensation as it shall deter-
mine, not exceeding the sum of $600. 00 per annum, and shall
enter into a well bound book and carefully preserve neat, legi-
ble and accurate minutes of all meetings of the said commis-
sion and perform such other duties as usually appertain to the
office of secretary of a private corporation or as are imposed
upon him by this Act or as may be assigned to him by said
commission. All sessions or meetings of the said commis-
sion shall be open and public and all its records shall be public
records, and it shall annually make to the Mayor a detailed
report of all its official transactions and expenditures.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That said commission
shall be charged with the duty of projecting, constructing and
establishing a Sewerage System for the collection, transmis-
sion and disposal of the house and other sewerage and drain-
age of the City of Hagerstown including either as a combined
or separate feature of said system the collection, transmission
and disposal of storm and ground water, respectively, and shall
be clothed with each and every and all powers which, by any-
thing short of a palpably forced construction, may be held to
be necessary or proper for these purposes, or either of them,
among which powers shall be the following, that is to say:

1. To make all such preliminary investigation and to do
all such preliminary work as should, in its judgment, precede
the actual projection, construction and establishment of said
system of sewerage.

2. To project and adopt such a system of sewerage as it
may deem best calculated to promote the objects of this Act.

3. To construct and establish all such local, district, lateral,
intercepting, outfall or other sewers, and all such conduits,
drains and pumping or other plants, and all such buildings,
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 City of Hagers-
town, Washington County, including submerged as well as
other lands, as it may deem expedient for carrying said system
of sewerage projected and adopted as aforesaid into full effect.

4. To incorporate with said system of sewerage or other-
wise utilize for the purpose of this Act, so far as it may deem
expedient, any or all existing public sewers or drains, includ-
ing storm water sewers and drains, in the City of Hagerstown,
and any or all of their appurtenances, either in their present
condition or with such repairs, modifications or changes as said