286                                  LAWS OF MARYLAND                          [CH. 203

SUSQUEHANNA RIVER AND THE POWER TO CONSTRUCT
OTHER APPURTENANT FACILITIES NECESSARY FOR
THE CONDUCTING OF WATER FROM THE SUSQUEHANNA
RIVER TO THE CITY OF BALTIMORE FOR THE USE OF
THE WATER SUPPLY SYSTEMS OF SAID CITY.

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 enter into, and take water from, the
Susquehanna River at any point in the State of Maryland,

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ABOVE THE CONO-
WINGO DAM AND ITS HYDRO-ELECTRIC GENERATING
PLANT AT A POINT WHICH WILL NOT MATERIALLY IN-
TERFERE WITH THE OPERATION OF SAID DAM AND ITS
HYDRO-ELECTRIC GENERATING PLANT, in order to add to,
augment, enlarge and improve the municipal water supply of the
City of Baltimore; to conduct the water taken from the Susquehanna
River 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 inhabitants, and of such other per-
sons or other legal entities as may now or hereafter be lawfully
furnished water by the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore; to
utilize, appropriate, divert, deflect, straighten, riprap or otherwise
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, establish, construct, erect, maintain, protect,
lay, lay out, use or employ any and all such dams, walls, bulkheads,
dikes, inlets, waste ways, water gates, bridges, tunnels, under-
ground structures or facilities, aqueducts, water ways, conduits,
culverts, drains, mains, pipes, settling or other reservoirs, lakes,
basins or ponds, power houses, pump houses or other buildings,
structures or erections, roads, ways, approaches, appurtenances,
agencies, instrumentalities or means as may be necessary or proper
for the purposes of this Act, including, but not limited to, all
instrumentalities or means for diverting, deflecting, disposing of,
controlling, collecting, confining, impounding, storing, protecting,
clarifying, purifying, filtering, transmitting or distributing, or
otherwise handling water that may be necessary or proper for the
purpose of promoting or securing a pure, copious and constant flow
of water from the Susquehanna River to the municipal water supply
system of Baltimore City as contemplated by this Act; to utilize,
extend, enlarge, improve, reinforce, adopt, reconstruct, alter re-
equip or repair, for the purpose 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