1504 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 526

be charged with the duty of constructing and establishing public
county water svstems in Baltimore County wherever and when-

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ever, in their opinion, the public health, welfare or conveni-
ence requires with the power and authority to adopt rules, or-
ders and regulations for the maintenance, preservation, repair,
improvement, protection, examination and inspection of such
systems, and all such rules, orders and regulations shall be
recorded in the record of the proceedings of said Commission-
ers, signed by them and attested by their chief clerk and au-
ditor and sealed with the corporate seal of Baltimore County,
and all such rules, orders and regulations shall have the force
and effect of law, and any person violating the provisions of
any such rule, order or regulation shall be deemed guilty of a
misdemeanor and shall be subject to a fine of not less than five
dollars or 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 and construct public
county water systems in Baltimore County herein conferred
upon said County Commissioners shall include the power to
do all things which may be necessary or incident thereto, and
particularly and expressly is the power conferred upon said
County Commissioners to do the following:

a. To make all preliminary investigations and to do all
preliminary work, which in the opinion of said County Com-
missioners should precede the actual construction of any water
system.

b. To employ for such period or periods as may in their
opinion be necessary a capable engineer and to appoint or
employ such other professional or technical experts or advisors,
and such agents or employees, skilled or unskilled, as they may
deem advisable for the proper performance of the duties im-
posed on them by this Act, to fix their respective compensa-
tions and to remove or discharge such experts, agents or em-
ployees at pleasure.

e. To construct, acquire and establish any reservoir, pump-
ing and nitration plants which, in their opinion, may
be necessary for the purpose of this Act, and to acquire
by purchase or gift any sources of water supply in Baltimore
County and any public water mains or systems of water mains
now located in Baltimore County and used to supply inhabi-
tants of Baltimore County with water, and especially all or
any part of the plant formerly belonging to the Baltimore
County Vater and Electric Company now owned by the Mayor