ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR.                1299

and by the Public Improvement Commission of Baltimore City
created by Ordinance No. 376, approved July 2, 1920, or by any
other Commission created by Ordinance of the Mayor and City
Council of Baltimore for said purpose.

SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That this Act is hereby
declared to be an emergency law and necessary for the imme-
diate preservation of the public health and safety, and having
been passed by a yea and nay vote, supported by three-fifths of
all the members elected to each of the two Houses of the General
Assembly, the same shall take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 10, 1931.

CHAPTER 521.

. AN ACT to empower the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore
to establish and maintain reservoirs or lakes in the valley of
the Patapsco River in Baltimore County, Carroll County and
Howard County, and/or in the valley of the Little Gunpowder
River in Baltimore County and Harford County, for. tie pur-
pose of augmenting, enlarging and improving the munic-
ipal water supply of Baltimore City; to exercise certain other
powers in connection therewith; to utilize, extend, enlarge,
reinforce, adapt, reconstruct, alter, re-equip, or repair for
the purposes of this Act, or for other purposes affecting the
municipal waiter supply of Baltimore City, all or any part
or parts of the present water system of Baltimore City, or
its appurtenances.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore be and it
is hereby authorized and empowered to convert the entire valley
or basin of the Patapsco River in Baltimore County, Carroll
County and Howard County, and its dependencies, and/or the
-entire valley or basin of the Little Gunpowder River in Baltimore
County and Howard County, and its dependencies, or so much of
each and all of said valleys or basins as may be necessary and proper
for the purposes of this Act, into reservoirs or lakes for augment-
ing, enlarging and improving the municipal water supply of the
City of Baltimore; to create, establish and maintain said reservoirs
or lakes and their appurtenances, and to conduct. the waters of
said reservoirs or lake along such route or routes and in such man-
ner and by such instrumentalities and means as may be necessary
or proper for the purposes of this Act to the City of Baltimore
and its environs, for the use of said City, and of its inhabitants,