ployed and used in the business of manufacturing in said City, and it shall be the duty of the Appeal Tax Court to make such abatements of taxes levied as aforesaid as may be authorized and directed by said City by ordinance as aforesaid; provided that such abatement shall be extended to all persons, firms or corporations engaged in the branches of manufacturing industry proposed to be benefited by any ordinance passed under the provisions of this paragraph of this section; provided further, that application for such abatement as aforesaid shall be made or verified to the satisfaction of said Court by the oath of the party applying for the same, or other satisfactory evidence, before the annual revision and correction of the tax lists in each year, which said Appeal Tax Court is by law required to make, shall be completed and returned by said Court to the City Collector and Board of Estimates, and not afterwards; and said Court shall further keep a record of all abatements made by it as aforesaid, and report in writing the aggregate amount thereof during the year to the said Mayor and City Council of Baltimore on or before the fifteenth day of October in each year. To extend the limits of direct taxation within the said City, from time to time, as it shall deem expedient. To have power to provide by ordinance or otherwise for the prompt collection of taxes due the City, and have power to sell real estate, as well as personal property, for the payment of taxes.

Theatrical and other Public Amusements.-To provide for licensing, regulating and restraining theatrical or other public amusements within the City of Baltimore.

Water. To establish, operate, maintain and control a system of water supply for Baltimore City, and to pass all ordinances necessary in the premises. From time to time to contract for, purchase, lease and hold, in fee simple, or for a term of years, any land, real estate, spring, brook, water, watercourse, and also the right to use and occupy, forever or for a term of years, any land, real estate, spring, brook, water or watercourse which it may conceive expedient and necessary for the purpose of conveying water into the said City for the use of the said City and for the health and convenience of the inhabit

ants thereof, and also the right to enter and pass through, from time to time, as occasion may require, and to use and occupy the said lands through which it may deem it necessary to convey the said water; and it is hereby invested with all the rights and powers necessary for the introduction of water into said City, and to enact and pass all ordinances, from time to time, which shall be deemed necessary and proper to exercise the powers and effect the objects above specified. To contract with individuals, firms or corporations for the use of the water of said City, on such terms and for such time as it may deem proper and expedient. The Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, or any agent authorized by it, may agree with the owner of any land, real estate, spring, brook, water or watercourse, as aforesaid, earth, timber, stone or other materials which it may conceive expedient or necessary to purchase and hold, for the purpose of introducing water into the City of Baltimore. they cannot agree, or if there be any incapacity or disability to contract with the owner of such land or real estate, spring, brook, water or watercourse as aforesaid, earth, timber, stone or other materials, or with the owner of such lands through which the said City may find it necessary to have a right of entry and passage, for the purpose of conveying the said water into the said City, or if such owner should be absent, out of the State, or unknown, it shall be lawful, on application of the City, for any Justice of the Peace of the county in which said lands, earth or other property or materials as aforesaid are situate, to issue his warrant to the Sheriff of said county, commanding him to summon from the said county a jury of twenty freeholders, inhabitants of said county, not related to the owner or persons interested, as aforesaid, in the said real estate or other property, to meet on the premises which are to be valued, on some certain day to be named in said warrant, of which said warrant and the day therein named for the meeting of the jury, twenty days' notice shall be given previous to such day by the City to every owner or person interested, as aforesaid, or if any owner be an infant or lunatic, or feme covert, to his or her guardian or her husband, or in either case left at his or her place of abode, or if out of the State or unknown, such notice shall be published not less than eight weeks successively in some one or more of the daily news

papers of Baltimore City, and in some one or more of the news papers of the county in which said property may be located, if any newspapers be published in such county. From the list of jurors so returned and attending, the person, the condemnation of whose property may be desired, may strike four, and the said City may strike four, so that the number of jurors be reduced to twelve, and in case either party shall neglect or refuse to strike off the names of jurors, then it shall be the duty of the Sheriff or his deputy, who shall attend as hereinbefore directed, to strike off jurors for the party so refusing or neglecting, so that the number of jurors be reduced to twelve, as aforesaid. The jurors so remaining shall inquire into, assess and ascertain the sum of money to be paid by the said City for the land, spring, brook, water rights or other property which it may deem necessary to purchase and hold or use for the purpose aforesaid. Before the said jury act as such the said Sheriff or his deputy shall administer to each of them an oath that he will justly and impartially value the damages which the owners or parties holding an interest therein will sustain by the use and occupation of said property by the City. The said jury shall reduce their inquisition to writing, and shall sign and seal the same, and it shall then be returned by said Sheriff to the Clerk of the Circuit Court for said county, and be filed by such clerk in his office, and shall be confirmed by said court at its next session, if no sufficient cause to the contrary be shown; and when confirmed shall be recorded by the said clerk at the expense of the City. If not confirmed, the said court may direct another inquisition in the manner above described. From any decision on matter of law made by said court on a hearing for confirmation, an appeal may be taken to the Court of Appeals; provided, that such appeal be taken within ten days after such decision shall be made, and the Court of Appeals may award costs to either party in its discretion. The inquisition shall describe the property taken or the bounds of the land condemned, and the quantity or duration of the interest in the same, valued to the City; and such valuation, when paid or tendered to the owner of said property, or his legal representative, shall entitle the City to the use, estate and interest in the same thus valued, as fully as if it had been conveyed by the owner of the same; and the valuation, if not re

ceived when tendered, may at any time thereafter be received from the City, without interest, by the said owner or his legal representative. If the twenty jurors summoned as aforesaid shall not appear at the time and place as aforesaid the Sheriff or his deputy, as the case may be, shall forthwith summon other freeholders of the county, from the bystanders or others qualified as aforesaid, to make up the said jury to the number of twelve. The jurors so summoned and attending shall be allowed the same compensation as is allowed to the jurors in the Circuit Court for the county, and the Sheriff shall be allowed similar fees as are allowed by law for the summoning jurors to attend the Circuit Court for the county, and also a per diem of two dollars for every day he or his deputy shall be in attendance upon an inquisition; and such expenses shall be paid by the City, except in cases of objections to the confirmation of inquisitions before the Circuit Court, when the costs in said Court may be awarded in the discretion of the Court. For the purpose of defraying all the expenses and costs of said lands, waters and water rights as shall have been taken for the purposes aforesaid, and of constructing all works necessary to the accomplishment of said purposes, and all expenses incident thereto, the said City shall have authority, in the name of the City, to issue certificates of debt, to be denominated on the face Baltimore Water Stock, to an amount not exceeding five million dollars, bearing interest not exceeding six per cent. per annum, and to provide by ordinance for the redemption of the same at a certain time, and under such provisions as the City may deem expedient and proper. The said City is authorized and empowered to assess rates for the supply and use of water at any point in Baltimore City and County, and also to enforce payment for the use of water, and other expenses incurred in the introduction of water from the water mains, according to the rates established by the said City, said payments to be enforced by the same process that City or State taxes are collected, or they may be collected by process before a Justice of the Peace, or in any of the Courts of the City of Baltimore having jurisdiction in such cases. The said City is authorized and empowered to appoint watchmen or such police force as may be necessary for the protection of its water works in the City and County of Baltimore,

and to impose fines and penalties for interference with or injury to the works or their appendages. To prevent the water from being obstructed or contaminated, and to prohibit all meddling or tampering with the water works and their appurtenances; said fines and penalties shall be enforced and collected as other fines and penalties are enforced and collected by law. To issue bonds or certificates of indebtedness to an amount not exceeding one million dollars, from time to time, as the same may be required, payable at such time and bearing such rate of interest not exceeding five per cent. per annum, as the said City shall provide by ordinance, the proceeds of the said bonds or certificates of indebtedness to be applied to the purpose of constructing and completing Lake Clifton, as proposed to be constructed on the line of the work of the introduction of the water of the Gunpowder Falls to the City of Baltimore, and for the acquisition of the necessary land in Baltimore County, whereon to locate one or more reservoirs, and for the construction of said reservoir or reservoirs, and for obtaining such pumping machinery as may be necessary in connection therewith, and for procuring and laying of iron pipes or mains for the purpose of distributing said water to the inhabitants of said City; provided, however, that the said bonds or certificates of indebtedness shall not be issued until the ordinance which the City is authorized to enact for such issue shall be approved by a majority of the legal voters of Baltimore City, at the time and place to be appointed by said ordinance in the provision for submitting the same to the legal voters of said City, as required by section 7 of Article XI of the Constitution of the State. Before the City shall lay any water pipes along any street, road, lane or avenue in the territory annexed to the City of Baltimore under the provisions of the Act of 1888, chapter 98, upon which the Catonsville Water Company has laid its pipes and other water appliances, the said City shall, if said company desires to surrender said pipes and water appliances in such street, road, lane or avenue, to the City, pay to the said company the fair value of its water pipes and other water appliances constructed in said street, lane, road or avenue, and such actual damages to the said company as shall be caused by the acquisition of said pipes and appliances by the City; and the amount so to be paid, if the said