CARROLL COUNTY. 1865

town, are hereby authorized and empowered to enter into and contract
with any body corporate or joint stock water company that may hereafter
be formed in Taneytown, for the supplying of water and to bind the
said corporate authorities of said Taneytown to pay annually to said
body corporate or joint stock waiter company as aforesaid for supplying
water to said town, and the placing of fire plugs or hydrants therein, the
interest at the rate of six per centum per annum, upon the cost of furnish-
ing water to said town and the placing of fire plugs or hydrants therein
for the extinguishment of fires and the protection of property in said
town; provided, however, said interest shall not exceed the amount real-
ized from a tax of ten cents upon every hundred dollars of assessable
property within the corporate limits of said Taneytown, and provided
further that said annual payments shall not begin until the said town has
been supplied with water.

1892, ch. 516, sec. 2.

434. In order to enable the Burgess and Commissioners of Taneytown
to carry out the provisions of this Act the said Burgess and Commissioners
are hereby authorized, empowered and directed to levy annually upon the
taxable property within the corporate limits of Taneytown in addition
to the corporation taxes now or that may hereafter be allowed by law, a
water tax to be levied and collected the same as other corporation taxes
are levied and collected, and that the said taxes levied and collected for
a water tax shall be kept as a separate fund and shall not be used for any
other purpose than to pay said body corporate or joint stock water com-
pany the interest on the cost of supplying saiid town with water and the
erection of fire plugs or hydrants as hereinbefore provided; and the Bur-
gess and Commissioners of Taneytown shall levy annually and collect
for this purpose a water tax uot exceeding ten cents upon every hundred
dollars of assessable property within the corporate limits of Taneytown.*

UNION BRIDGE.+

INCORPORATION.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 7, aec. 167. 1880, ch. 434. 1900, ch. 206, sec. 167.

435. The inhabitants of Union Bridge, in Carroll County, are created
a corporation, by the name of "The Mayor and Common Council of Union
Bridge," and by that name shall have perpetual succession, may sue and
be sued; may have and use a common seal, and possess such other incidents
and powers as attach to as municipal corporation, and may purchase and
hold real, personal and mixed property for the benefit of said corporation;
provided, however, that the Mayor and Common Council shall not pur-
chase or acquire any real estate, unless the said Mayor and Council shall

*Ch. 516, 1892, was adopted by the voters of the town at the election May 2, 1892.

+Ch. 42, 1924, authorized Union Bridge to issue $7,000 of refunding and im-
provement bonds. Ch. 3, 1927, authorized $20,000 of similar bonds.