ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 233

United States to qualify them as directors to act as such in any
such company. And the said Mayor and City Council of Cum-
berland are hereby given full power and authority to do any
other act or thing which may be necessary to carry out and com-
plete and effectuate the objects and purposes of the sections of
this Act pertaining to the water system and supply of said city.

72. If the Mayor and City Council cannot agree, or if there
be any incapacity or disability to contract with the owner or
owners of any land traversed or through which is laid the water
main of the City of Cumberland, extending from the Fort Hill
Reservoir, near the City of Cumberland, to the intersection of
the water main of said city with the Mason and Dixon Line
between Allegany County, Maryland, and Bedford County,
Pennsylvania, through which the water is conveyed from
Evitts Creek in Bedford County, Pennsylvania, to the City of
Cumberland; or if such owner or owners shall be absent out of
the State or unknown, or without legal capacity to contract by
reason of infancy, coverture or otherwise, it shall be lawful for
the Mayor and City Council of Cumberland to secure by con-
demnation a right of way, as nearly as practicable fifty feet in
width (except where the same may cross public roads), the
same to extend as nearly as practicable twenty-five feet on each
side of the center line of said main, the title to which, whether
acquired by purchase or condemnation, shall thereafter vest in
the Mayor and City Council of Cumberland in fee, with the
right to purchase or condemn such land on either side or right
of way as may be necessary to properly grade any surface
water on streams over or under said main, such condemnation
to be in the same manner and by the same proceedings as
heretofore provided for railroad companies by the Acts of As-
sembly of 1896, Chapter 151, and by the Acts of Assembly of
1892, Chapter 657, Section 167A (which should have been
designated 167B).

73. That the Mayor and City Council shall have and are
hereby invested with the full power and authority to enact
and pass all ordinances which from time to time they may
deem necessary and proper to effect the objects herein speci-
fied, and to regulate the introduction and use of said water
and the improvements thereof, and for the protection and
preservation of its works, machinery and property connected
therewith, and it shall be the duty of the Commissioner of
Water and Electric Light to see that the ordinances so passed
are properly carried out and enforced.