THEODORE R. MCKELDIN, GOVERNOR 849

SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That the said
Burgess MAYOR and Council are authorized and empow-
ered to contract for, purchase in fee simple or lease for a
terms of years, any land, real estate, spring, brook, water
and water courses, to dig, bore, and sink wells, to erect any
and all reservoirs, storage dams, and standpipes, for the
storage of water, as may be 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, operating or maintaining
said Water Works or extending the same.

SEC. 7. And be it further enacted. That if the said
Burgess MAYOR and Council cannot 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 leasehold 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 in-
capable of contracting or is absent from Washington
County or unknown, it shall be lawful for the said Burgess
MAYOR 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 308-315 of Article 23
of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1951 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 MAYOR 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, well, conduits, pipes, fire plugs,
machinery appliances and any and all parts thereof, what-
soever, and all property and things belonging or appertain-
ing thereto, shall rest in the Burgess MAYOR 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 con-
structed by throwing any impure or deleterious substance
or thing into the same, or by swimming, bathing or wash-
ing 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