'732                         LAWS OF MARYLAND.                  [CH. 282

tirety Into or in said town, or if such owner is under any
disability or incapacity to contract or absent out of the county
or unknown, the said Mayor and Council of Grantsville is
hereby clothed with the power of condemnation under the right
of eminent domain as provided in the Public General Laws of
Maryland as fully as if the provisions of said laws had been
herein incorporated. The said Mayor and Council of Grants-
ville shall have full power to fix schedules of rates for furnish-
ing water and sewerage to private residences and other build-
ings, and the said Mayor and Council shall have power to col-
lect the same as other taxes are collected and the income thereof
shall be applied, first, for expenses and maintenance and after-
wards for the payment of the interest on the bonds and a sink-
ing fund to meet the bonds at maturity.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the title to said
water works and all land, estates and water courses, waterways,
conduits, pipes, machinery and all other parts thereto shall,
when completed or acquired, vest in the Mayor and Council
of Grantsville; and every person who shall knowingly or wil-
fully pollute any spring, streams, brooks, water course, reser-
voir or standpipe in connection with the said water works so
built or constructed by throwing any impure or deleterious
substance or thing into the same, or by swimming, bathing or
washing themselves, or by washing clothes or any other thing
therein, or by committing any nuisance in or near the sources
of supply of the reservoir or standpipe for said water works,
so as to pollute the same shall, upon conviction of such offense,
T)e liable to a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars, nor more
than three hundred dollars for each offense, to be recovered by
the Mayor and Council of Grantsville before a justice of the
peace, as other fines are recovered, or to imprisonment in the
county jail or in the House of Correction for a term of not
less than six months nor more than eighteen months, or both
fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the justice of the
peace, one-half of such fine to go to the informer and the bal-
ance to the Mayor and Council of Grantsville for the purposes
of this Act.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That for the purpose of
redeeming said bonds at their maturity and for securing the
prompt payment of the interest thereon, the Mayor and Coun-
cil of Grantsville shall for the year of the issue of said bonds
and annually thereafter until the maturity of said bonds, levy