THEODORE R. McKELDIN, GOVERNOR                   287

the duration of the lease), or by condemnation, or by any other
legal means, any land or property of any kind regardless of
whether it is public, quasi public, or privately owned, situated
wholly or partly in Baltimore City, Baltimore County, Harford
County, or in any other county of this State, or any interest, fran-
chise, easement, right or privilege therein, which may be required
for any of the purposes of this Act, including, but not limited to,
springs, brooks, creeks, rivulets, rivers, or other water courses,
mills, factories, public utilities, and industrial plants of every de-
scription and their appurtenances; workshops, stores, farm build-
ings, structures and erections, churches, graveyards, school houses
and other school property, dwelling houses, out houses, bridges,
streets, alleys, roads and ways of all kind, and all other buildings,
structures, erections or improvements of every kind and descrip-
tion, on, in, over or under any land or water or other property, or
any interest, franchise, easement, right or privilege therein, and in
like manner to acquire any corporate franchises or any other thing,
including, but not limited to, earth, timber, stone or other materials,
or places of temporary or permanent deposit for excavated material
or other like facilities for effectuating the objects of this Act, of
any sort that may be required for the purposes of this Act; and
generally to do and perform all and every such acts or things which,
by anything short of a palpably forced construction, could be held
to be auxiliary or conducive to the proper exercise of any or all of
the powers by this Act conferred upon the Mayor and City Council
of Baltimore, or to the effective accomplishment of the leading pur-
pose of this Act, namely, the taking of water from the Susque-
hanna River in such amount as may be necessary and the trans-
mission and distribution thereof in as abundant, clear, pure, health-
ful, convenient and satisfactory a character as possible to the City
of Baltimore, and its inhabitants, and such other persons or other
legal entities as may now or hereafter be lawfully supplied with
water by the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore for its and their
uses. The title acquired by condemnation, or otherwise, by the
Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, under this Act, for the pur-
poses thereof, shall, as to any land or other property or things of
a permanent nature or character needed or required in connection
with the operations of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore
under this Act, involving the idea of exclusive use and occupation
by the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, be in fee simple, but
may, as to land or other property or things, required for other
purposes under this Act, be in fee simple or limited to some lesser
quantum of interest, in point of estate or duration, accordingly as
the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore may determine. TO THE
END THAT THE NECESSARY WATER FOR THE CITY OF
BALTIMORE AND ADJOINING COUNTIES CAN BE SECURED
WITH A MINIMUM LOSS OR DAMAGE TO THE PARTIES IN-
TERESTED IN THE CONOWINGO HYDRO-ELECTRIC PROJ-
ECT, AND AT THE MINIMUM COST TO THE CITY, THE
MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL OF BALTIMORE SHALL, SO
faR AS POSSIBLE, USE OR DIVERT WATER FROM THE
SURPLUS ONLY AFTER PROVIDING FOR THE MAXIMUM RE-
QUIREMENTS OF THE OPERATIONS OF THE SAID PROJECT.
THE RIGHT IS HEREBY RESERVED, TO ALL PARTIES IN-
TERESTED IN SAID CONOWINGO HYDRO-ELECTRIC PROJ-
ECT, TO PROPER COMPENSATION FOR ALL LOSS OR DAM-
AGE RESULTING TO THEM OR ANY OF THEM BY REASON