ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR.                1301

school houses or other school property, dwelling houses, out
houses, bridges, streets, alleys, roads and ways, and all other
buildings, structures, erections or improvements of every de-
scription, on, over or under land or other property, or any
interest, franchise, easement, right or privilege therein, and in
like manner to acquire any corporate franchises or any other
thing, including earth, timber, stone or other materials, or places
of temporary or permanent deposit for excavated material or
other like facilities for effectuating the objects of this Act, of
any sort that may be required for the purposes of this Act; and
generally to do and perform all and every such acts or things
which, by anything short of a palpably forced construction,
could be held to be auxiliary or conductive to the proper exer-
cise of any or all of the powers by this Act conferred upon the
Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, or to the effective accomp-
lishment of the leading purpose of this Act, namely, the collec-
tion, accumulation and maintenance of an ample supply of
water in said reservoirs or lakes, and its transmission and dis-
tribution in as abundant, clear, pure, healthful, convenient and
satisfactory a character as possible to the City of Baltimore,
and its inhabitants, and such other persons as may now or here-
after be lawfully supplied with water by the City of Baltimore
for its and their uses. The title acquired by condemnation, or
otherwise, by the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, under
this Act, for the purposes thereof, shall, as to land or other
property or things required for said reservoirs or lakes, or for
said water sheds or reserves, or for surface buildings, erections,
structures, works or things of a permanent character, involv-
ing the idea of exclusive use and occupation by the Mayor and
City Council of Baltimore, be in fee simple, but may, as to land
or other property or things, required for other purposes under
this Act, be in fee sample or limited to some lesser quantum of
interest, in point of estate or duration, accordingly as the
Mayor and City Council of Baltimore may determine,

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the County Commis-
sioners of any county, whose interests in any respect may be-
come involved in the execution of this; Act, or any part or parts
thereof, or any body politic, quasi public corporation, turnpike
company or private corporation, whose interest in any respect
may become involved in the execution of this Act, or any part.
or parts thereof, shall be, and is, or are hereby authorized and
empowered, anything in the terms of their or its chartered ex-
istence or powers to the contrary notwithstanding, to enter
into all such contracts, agreements, stipulations or arrangements,
deeds, conveyances or transfers with the Mayor and City Coun-
cil of Baltimore as may be necessary or proper for the purposes
of this Act or any of them.