916 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 537

establish, set apart and maintain, regulate and protect,
afforest or otherwise improve water sheds and reserva-
tions along, and to such full extent of adjacency as may
be necessary for the purposes of this Act, adjacent to the
waters of said reservoir, lake or basin, for securing a pure,
copious and constant flow of water into said reservoir,
lake or basin; to create, establish and maintain, construct,
erect, lay, lay out, employ and from time to time enlarge
in size or height or otherwise, reconstruct and re-erect
all such dams, walls, bulkheads, dikes, inlets, waste ways,
water gates, bridges, tunnels, aqueducts, water ways, con-
duits, culverts, drains, mains, pipes, settling or other res-
ervoirs, lakes, basins or ponds, power houses, pump
houses or other buildings, structures or erections, roads,
ways, approaches, appurtenances, agencies, instrumental-
ities 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, collect-
ing, confining, impounding, storing, protecting, clarifying,
purifying, transmitting or distributing, or otherwise hand-
ling water that may be necessary or proper for the pur-
pose of promoting or securing the full working efficiency
and utility of said reservoir, lake or basin for the objects
for which it is intended by this Act; to utilize, extend,
enlarge, re-inforce, 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 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 preliminary surveys and investigations, and
to do all such preliminary 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 duration of the lease), or
by other similar methods of acquisition, or by condemna-
tion, any land or property, public, quasi public or private,
situation wholly or partly in Baltimore City or Harford
County, and/or in any other county of this State, or any
interest, franchise, easement, right or privilege 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, work-
shops, stores, farm buildings, structures and erections,
churches, graveyards, schoolhouses or other school prop-
erty, dwelling houses, outhouses, bridges, streets, alleys,