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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 88.

AN ACT to repeal section one hundred and fifteen
of chapter three hundred and forty-three of the
acts of eighteen hundred and seventy-four, relat-
ing to the City of Westminster, in Carroll county,
and to re-enact the same with amendments.

Repealed and
re-enacted.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That section one hundred and fifteen, of
chapter three hundred and forty-three, of the acts of
eighteen hundred and seventy-four, relating to the
charter of the City of Westminster, in Carroll
county, be and the same is hereby repealed and re-
enacted with amendments, so as to read as follows:

Levy tax.

115. SUB-SECTION 1. The said Mayor and Common
Council may levy annually a tax on the property in
said city, assessed as aforesaid, often cents on every
hundred dollars of the assessed value thereof, which,
together with all other taxes which are now or may
hereafter be authorized to be levied, shall be a lien
on the said property, real, personal, or mixed of the
tax-payers of the said city respectively, till paid, and
interest shall be chargeable on such taxes after thirty
days from the time when such tax is due and paya-
ble; they may also, in their discretion, allow a dis-
count not exceeding five per cent, for prompt pay-
ment of said taxes.

Levy tax.

SUB-SECTION 2. The said Mayor and Common
Council may levy annually, as aforesaid, a further
tax, not exceeding five cents on every hundred dol-
lars, to be used and applied to the payment of water
rents for the use of water for the public uses of said
city, that is to say, for use on the public streets of
said city and for the suppression of fires, to any in-
corporated company which may be organized for the
introduction of a supply of water into said city; and
the said Mayor and Common Council may contract
with any such incorporated, or to be incorporated,

Proviso.

company for the introduction of water into said city,
to pay such company annually any such sum, not
exceeding the proceeds of said levy of five cents, as
aforesaid, as the said Mayor and Common Council,