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such instructions and by-la,.vs, as the District may by vote impose. The <br /> : District acting through its initial Board of Water Commissioners, shall appoint, <br /> +` each for such term as it may determine, a clerk and a treasurer of the District, <br /> ' and such ocher officers and employees not specifically provided for in this <br /> @1@ Act, as it may deem necessary and proper, and shall fix their compensation. <br /> The treasurer shall not be a member of the Board of Water Commissioners <br /> and shall give bond to the District in such amounts as may be approved by <br /> said Board with a surety company authorized to transact business in the <br /> I ,. Commonwealth as surety. A majority of said Water Commissioners shall <br /> ' constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. Any vacancy occurring <br /> in said board from any cause may be filled for the remainder of the unexpired <br /> term by the District at any legal meeting called for the purpose. No money <br /> shall be drawn from the treasury of the District ori account of its waterworks <br /> except upon a written order of said water commissioners or a majority of <br /> them. <br /> i <br /> SECTION 10. The District, at any Annual or Special Meeting, may <br /> adopt by-laws regulating the call of District meetings and the necessary <br /> 3[ quorum at any meeting and may adopt such other by-laws as are appropriate <br /> for the operation of the District. All District meetings shall be called pursuant <br /> to a warrant issued by the Board of Water Commissioners. The procedure <br /> for the call of a meeting, publication of the warrant, and conduct of the <br /> s; <br /> meeting shall be as set forth in chapter thirty-nine of the General Laws, <br /> unless the bi la.vs adopted by the District otherwise provide. The by-laws <br /> or the District may allow for sucn other officers not provided for In this <br /> �- act as deemed necessary or prccer. <br /> 4 <br /> F' <br /> SECTION It. Whoever wilfully or wantonly corrupts, pollutes or <br /> diverts any ',vater obtained or supplied under this act, or wilfully or wantonly <br /> f <br /> I <br /> in any reservoir, ,veil, standpipe, aqueduct, pipe or other property owned <br /> k . or used by [he Disr.rict for any cf the purposes of this act, shall forfeit and <br /> ' =ac to tine District three times e amount of damages assessed therefor, <br /> to __ recoered in an action of tor[, and upon conviction or any of the above <br /> ` aril or wanton acts shall be pcnisned by a fine of not more than three <br /> hundred dollars or by imprisonment for nor mere than one year, or both. <br /> I <br /> SECTION 12. Upon a petition in writing addressed to the Board of <br /> !` Water Commissioner requesting that certain real estate, accurately described <br /> 1 therein, located in said coven or abutting on said District and not otherwise <br /> served by a public water supply, be includedwithin the limits thereof, and <br /> signed by a majority of [he owners of such real estate, said 'Fater Commissioners <br /> shall cause a meeting of the District to be called, at .vhich mee[ing the <br /> pvoters may voce on the question of including said real estate '.vithin the <br /> 1' District. <br /> If a majority of the 'iocers present and vo[ina thereon vote in the <br /> affirmative, the District Clerk shall, -:vithin ren days, file with the Town <br /> Clerk of said town an attested couv or said riet'tion and vote, and thereupon <br /> said real estate shall become and be Dart of the District and shall be holden <br /> under [his act in the same manner and to the same e.<tenr as the real estate <br /> described in section one. „� <br />