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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

dollars of taxable property within the corporate limits of Ridg-

Authority to
collect a

ley, to pay the interest on said bonds and to gradually redeem

special tax.

and retire such bonds until they shall all have been redeemed

and retired ; and the proceeds of such tax shall be collected by

the Commissioners and forthwith applied by them to the re-

demption of said bonds as they shall become redeemable, and

the said taxes are hereby inviolably dedicated to the payment

of the interest and principal of said bond issue as well as

to the maintenance of the said water works; said tax to be

levied and collected as other taxes for said town are levied

and collected.

37. That the Commissioners of Ridgley be and they are

Empowered to

hereby authorized and empowered to negotiate, sell or dispose

dispose of
bonds as

of the bonds hereinbefore provided for as many thereof as

deemed best

they shall deem proper, and with the proceeds thereof to erect

or provide for the erection, building, maintaining and keep-

ing in repair said water works ; provided, however, that no

bonds shall be sold or disposed of for less than their par value ;

and the said Commissioners of Ridgley are furthermore fully

authorized to make all necessary rules and regulations and to

pass all necessary ordinances, with penalties for their violation,

and to do all other necessary acts for the proper managing,

maintaining and repairing of said water works and for the pro-

tection thereof, and to condemn all lands necessary for the

Condemnation
of lands.

erection and operating of said water works and the plant there-

of, which condemnation shall be had in the manner provided

for the opening of streets in said town.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect

from the date of its passage.

Approved April 7, 1904.

CHAPTER. 278.

AN ACT to repeal Section 313, Article 2, of the Code of Local

Laws of Maryland, title "Frederick County," sub-title "Me-

chanicstown," and to re-enact the same with amendments.

SECTION i. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-

Mechanics-

land, That Section 313 of Article 2 of the Code of Public

town, Fred-
erick County

Local Laws of Maryland, title "Frederick County," sub-title

Maryland.

"Mechanicstown," be and the same is hereby repealed and re-

enacted so as to read as follows :

313. The male citizens of said village of the age of twenty-

one years and upwards, being citizens of the United States,