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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, relating 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Repealed and re-enacted.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and seventy-four, relating to the charter of the City of Westminster, in Carroll county, be and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted with amendments, so as to read as follows: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 payable; they may also, in their discretion, allow a discount not exceeding five per cent, for prompt payment 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 dollars, 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 incorporated 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,