918 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 479

in said district, or in any part thereof, and to devise and
prepare plans to prevent floods from any other streams, and
for the purpose of carrying out these objects, to authorize
said Mayor and City Council to enter upon land or property,
to dredge, widen, divert or otherwise change the course of
Will's Creek or any other natural or artificial water course,
or any ditch, drain or sewer, and to fill up the same, to con-
struct and maintain ditches, sewers, sewer gates, pumps,
canals, levees, dams and other similar works, to heighten,
lower or otherwise change the banks of Will's Creek and
the Potomac River, to erect walls, and to raise, heighten,
strengthen or otherwise change existing walls along said
banks or within three hundred feet of said banks, to
strengthen, narrow and otherwise change the piers and other
sub-structures of all bridges over said Creek or River, to
remove all dams and other obstructions in the beds of either
of said streams, and to lower or otherwise change such dams
and obstructions, and to change the construction and opera-
tion of the same, to elevate, lower and change the grade and
location of public and private streets, alleys and roadways,
and to close or open the same, to remove, remodel, rebuild,
change the location of or otherwise modify sheds, houses and
other buildings of every description, and also fences, gates,
doorways and other openings of all sorts, and viaducts and
canal and railroad works, to reclaim, fill in, or remove wet
and overflowed land and islands, and to clear the same, to
regulate the flow of Will's Creek or the Potomac River, and
to do all of the aforegoing things through and over the prop-
erty of railroad and all other public utility companies, to
acquire every species of real and personal property, and all
kinds of uses and rights therein by condemnation, gift, pur-
chase or otherwise, and to do all other things necessary and
proper in preventing or lessening the danger from floods in.
said City of Cumberland, and to carry out any and all of the
provisions of the plans adopted for that purpose, and to do
any and all of the aforegoing things within the present limits
of the City of Cumberland, and within a distance of one mile
in any direction beyond said limits; to do all or any of the
work necessary under this Act by contract or otherwise, to
advertise for contracts for said work or any part thereof, and
to employ persons to carry out and perform all said work,
or any part thereof, to condemn any and all property, and
rights and uses therein which may be necessary and proper
for carrying out the provisions of this Act by special pro-