930 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 479

said Will's Creek within said limits; to strengthen, modify or
otherwise change the piers, abutments or other sub-structures
of any and all bridges across said Will's Creek in said limits;
to widen, deepen, dredge and otherwise remove obstructions
from the channel of the Potomac River below the present
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal dam at Cumberland for a distance
of one mile below said dam; to provide for the payment of the
expenses necessary to carry out any and all of the aforegoing
powers, and to provide for the re-payment of these expenses or
any part thereof by means of levying special assessments against
the property or properties benefited by the exercise of any and
all of the aforegoing powers, or to provide for the re-payment
of said expenses or any part thereof with money raised by gen-
eral or special taxation levied on all the assessable property in
said City; to exercise the power of eminent domain in securing
all such property and rights therein as may be necessary and
proper, for the carrying out of any and all of said powers, and
to exercise said power under all the authority given by the
Public General Laws of Maryland to corporations authorized
to acquire land or any other property rights by condemnation;
to acquire by purchase, gift or otherwise any and all property
necessary or useful in carrying out any and all of said powers;
to have any and all work performed which may be necessary
or useful in carrying out any and all of said powers, and to
let contracts for said work or any part thereof on competitive
bids, or to have said work performed or any part thereof by its
own employees, servants, and agents; to enter in and upon any
land or other property where such entry will be necessary or
helpful in carrying out any or all of the aforegoing powers, and
to pay the owner or owners of said property any damage occa-
sioned them by said entry or entries; and to do any and all
things which may be necessary or useful in any way in pre-
venting floods or lessening the danger of floods in the City of
Cumberland, or in carrying out the provisions of such Partial
Flood Prevention Plan as said Mayor and City Council of
Cumberland may, in their discretion, adopt for the purpose
of preventing or lessening the danger of floods from Will's
Creek in said City of Cumberland, or in preparing or having
prepared other plans for flood prevention in said City.

SEC. 18-A. And be it further enacted. That the said Mayor
and City Council shall not in carrying out any or all the; pro-
visions of this Act expend any money in excess of the amount
of money received from the sale of Seventy-five Thousand