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necessary and expedient; to lay all pipes and conduits, erect
fire plugs, to purchase all necessary machinery, supplies and
materials necessary to be used in building, construction, oper-
ating or maintaining said Water Works or extending the same.

SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That if the said Burgess
and Council can not agree with the owner or owners of any
real estate or leasehold estate, spring, brook, stream, water or
water-course, or with the owners of any real or lease hold
estate or land through which it may be necessary to have a
right of entry or passage for conveying water, or if such owner
or owners is or are incapable of contracting or is absent from
Washington County or unknown, it shall be lawful for the said
Burgess and Council of Boonsboro, and it is hereby author-
ized and empowered to acquire the same by condemnation in
the manner set forth in Sections 331-337 of Article 23 of the
Code of Public General Laws of Maryland (1924 Edition), and
any amendments thereto and the provisions thereof to meet
conditions as required are hereby made applicable to any and
all proceedings of condemnation which may be necessary by
said Burgess and Council.

SEC. 8. And be it further enacted, That the title to said
Water Works and all lands, estate, water courses., water ways,
reservoirs, dams, wells, conduits, pipes, fire plugs, machinery
appliances and any and all parts thereof, whatsoever, and all
property and things belonging or appertaining thereto, shall
rest in the Burgess and Council of Boonsboro,

SEC. 9. And be it further enacted, That every person who
shall knowingly or wilfully pollute any spring, streams, brooks,
water course, reservoir 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 said reservoir
or standpipe for said Water Works, so as to pollute the same
shall, upon conviction of such offense, be liable to a fine of
not less than twenty-five dollars, nor more than two hundred
dollars for each offense, to be recovered by the Burgess and
Council of Boonsboro 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 twelve months, or both fine and im-
prisonment, in the discretion of the justice of the peace, one-
half of such fine to go to the informer and the balance to the
Burgess and Council of Boonsboro for the purpose of this Act,