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be and they are hereby repealed to the extent of such in-
consistency.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall
take effect June 1, 1941.

Approved May 26, 1941.

CHAPTER 537.

(Senate Bill 425)

AN ACT to empower the Mayor and City Council of
Baltimore to establish and maintain a reservoir, lake
or basin in the valley of Deer Creek in Harford County,
for the purpose of augmenting, enlarging and improv-
ing the municipal 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 water
supply of Baltimore City, all or any part or parts of the
present water system of Baltimore City, or its appur-
tenances.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore
be and it is hereby authorized and empowered to convert
the entire valley or basin of Deer Creek in Harford County,
and its dependencies, or so much of the said valley or
basin as may be necessary and proper for the purposes of
this Act, into a reservoir, lake or basin for augmenting,
enlarging and improving the municipal water supply of
the City of Baltimore; to create, establish and maintain
said reservoir, lake or basin, and its appurtenances, and
to conduct the waters of said reservoir, lake or basin along
such route or routes and in such manner 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 inhabi-
tants, 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 other-
wise 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,