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within three hundred feet of a line of water pipes ; provided,
they shall not assess a water-tax on any building where the
water is not taken on the premises, for a sum greater than
five dollars, nor less than one dollar per annum; and the
Mayor and City Council are hereby authorized to enforce
payment for the use of water, and other expenses incurred in
the introduction of water from the water mains, according to
the rates established by the said Mayor and City Council,
and for the water-tax assessed., said payments to be enforced
by the same process that State and county taxes are collected,
or they may be collected by process before a Justice of the
Peace, or in any of the Courts of said eity having jurisdiction in
such cases ; and the said Mayor and City Council are hereby
authorized and empowered to appoint watchmen or such
police force as may be necessary for the protection of their
water-works, in the city and county of Baltimore, and to im-
pose fines and penalties for interference with or injury to
the works or their appendages, to prevent the water from
being obstructed or contaminated, and to prohibit all med-
dling or tampering with the water-works and their appurte-
nances ; said fines and penalties shall be enforced as pro-
vided in this Article, sections 229 to 235, inclusive.

Mr. Stevens raised the point of order, that the amendment
offered was substantially the same as the previous one
rejected.

The President, (Mr. Steiner in the chair,) overruled the
point of order, and the amendment was considered, and

Rejected by yeas and nays as follows :

AFFIRMATIVE.
Mr. Davis—1.

NEGATIVE.

Messrs. Blake, Lloyd,

Claggett, McCulloh,

Denson, Phelps,

Earle, Stevens,

Fields, Steiner,

Knight, Spencer,

Longwell, Williams—14.

Mr. Denson moved a call of the Senate, and the following
Senators responded:

Messrs. Blake, Brewer, Billingsley, Brattan, Claggett,
Davis, Denson, Earle, Fields, Knight, Longwell, Lloyd,
McCulloh, Phelps, Stevens, Steiner, Spencer, Suit, Tuck.
Williams—19.

On motion by Mr. Denson,