EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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ville subject to taxation in addition to the regular annual taxes

authorized to be levied and collected by Section 18 of the

Acts of the General Assembly of Maryland of 1902, Chap-

ter 631, and the said tax shall be levied at the same time,

and shall become due, be in arrear at the same time, shall

bear interest from the same date, and be liens on all the prop-

Liens.

erty of the person and corporations assessed, and shall be col-

lected as other taxes authorized to be levied by said Mayor

and Common Council of Hyattsville; but if said bonds shall

be sold at such time of the year as to make it impracticable

to levy said special sewer tax for said year, at the same time

with the levy of other annual taxes for such year, the Mayor

and Common Council of Hyattsville shall levy said special tax

as soon after such sale as practicable, and said special tax

shall be due and payable thirty days after such levy and shall

bear interest from said date. The said special sewer taxes

shall be apportioned by the Treasurer to the payment of the in-

terest on said bonds as the same shall become cine and payable,

and if the special sewer taxes collected in any year shall be

insufficient to pay the interest on said bonds in said year, the

deficiency shall be made up and be paid from the general rev-

Deficiency to

enues of the Mayor and Common Council of Hyattsville, and

be provided
for.

if the special sewer tax shall not have been collected in time to

pay any semi-annual instalment of interest when it shall be due

and payable, so mu ch of the general revenues of said Mayor

and Common Council shall be applied to the payment thereof

as may be requisite, and the amount so applied may afterwards

be made good to the general revenue out of the last preceding

levy of said special cewer tax. There shall be a sinking fund

created and constantly maintained which shall become sufficient

Sinking fund

in amount to redeem at maturity all said bonds then outstand-

reated.

ing, and shall be used for that purpose only, and the Treasurer

and the Mayor and Common Council of Hyattsville shall be

custodian thereof and responsible for its safety.

To create and maintain said sinking fund, all moneys real-

ized by said special sewer tax which shall remain, if any, after

To maintain
aid fund.

the payment of the interest on said bonds in each of the first

four years, accounting from the date thereof, shall be set apart

for said sinking fund. After the expiration of said four years

there shall be contributed and paid each year into the sinking

fund such an amount of money as, with any interest added

thereto which may have been collected during said year from

the deposits and investments of the sinking fund, will be equal

to one-twenty-sixth of the difference between the amount of