1300                        LAWS OF MARYLAND.                  [CH. 521

and of such other persons as may now or hereafter be lawfully
furnished with water by said City; to utilize, appropriate, divert,
deflect, straighten, riprap or otherwise modify or control, for the
purposes of this Act, all springs, brooks, creeks, rivulets, rivers
or other water courses, tributary (or capable of being rendered
tributary) to, or obstructive of, the purposes of this Act, to
create, establish, set apart and maintain, regulate and protect,
afforest or otherwise improve water sheds and reservations along,
and to such full extent of adjacency as may be necessary for
the purposes of this Act, adjacent to the waters of said reser-
voirs or lakes, for securing a pure, copious and constant flow
of water into said reservoirs or lakes; to create, establish and
maintain, construct, erect, lay, lay out and employ all such dams,
walls, bulkheads, dikes, inlets, waste ways, water gates, bridges,
tunnels, aqueducts, water ways, conduits, culverts, drains, mains,
pipes, settling or other reservoirs, lakes, basins or ponds, power
houses, pump houses or other buildings, structures or erections,
roads, ways, approaches, appurtenances, agencies, instrumen-
talities or means as may be necessary or proper for the pur-
poses of this Act, including all instrumentalities or means for
diverting, deflecting, disposing of, controlling, collecting, con-
fining, impounding, storing, protecting, clarifying, purifying,
transmitting or distributing, or otherwise handling water that
may be necessary or proper for the purpose of promoting or
securing the full working efficiency and utility of said reser-
voirs or lakes for the objects for which they are intended by this
Act; 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 water supply of Balti-
more City, all or any part or pants of the present water system
of Baltimore City and its appurtenances; to make and enter
into any and all contracts, agreements or stipulations germane
to the scope of its powers under this Act; to make all such pre-
liminary surveys and investigations, and to do all such pre-
liminary work under this Act as it may be advised shall be
necessary or proper for the purposes of this Act; to acquire by
gift, purchase, arbitration, exchange, lease (whatever the dura-
tion of the lease), or by other similar 'methods of acquisition,,
or by condemnation, any land or property, public, quasi pub-
lic or private, situated wholly or partly in Baltimore City, Bal-
timore County, Howard County, Carroll County, Harford
County, Anne Arundel County, and/or in any other county of
this State, or any interest, franchise, easement, right or priv-
ilege therein, which may be required for any of the purposes
of this Act, including springs, brooks, creeks, rivulets, rivers
or other water courses, mills, factories and industrial plants of
every description and their appurtenances; workshops, stores,
farm buildings, structures and erections, churches, graveyards,.