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Justice of the Peace of the State of Maryland residing in said city as
may be elected as Police Magistrate for said city, by said Mayor and
City Council, and no other, as debts, and shall be paid to the Mayor
and City Council, for the use of said city.

1922, ch. 96, sec. 54.

54. Any one shall have the right to appeal to the Circuit Court for
Allegany County, from any decision or judgment of the Police Magis-
trate of the City of Cumberland, in any case or trial for the violation
of any of the laws or ordinances of the said City of Cumberland.

TAXES.

1922, ch. 96, sec. 55.

55. Said Mayor and City Council shall have power to levy and collect

a tax on the assessable property of said city for the general purposes of
said corporation, not exceeding in any one year seventy-five cents on each
one hundred dollars' worth of said assessable property; to levy and col-
lect such a tax on the assessable property of said city as may be necessary
to pay the interest on the city bonds and to provide a sinking fund for
the redemption thereof at maturity; provided, however, that the bonded
indebtedness of said city shall not exceed at any one time ten per cent.

of the assessed valuation of the property in said city; and further pro-
vided, that it shall not have power to pledge the faith and credit of said
city for any sum exceeding fifteen thousand dollars without first sub-
mitting the question to the voters of said city after twenty days' notice
by handbills or otherwise and two-thirds of the legal votes cast being in
favor thereof. The said sum of fifteen thousand dollars hereby specified
being intended to be an amount in excess, at any one time, of the amount
which shall be ascertained by the finance committee to be collectible from
taxes for the current year. And if said Mayor and City Council shall be
authorized by the vote above mentioned at any time to pledge the credit

of the city to the amount of ten thousand dollars or more, then they may
at once issue coupon bonds of said corporation therefor, at a rate of
interest not exceeding six per centum per annum, and payable in not
less than thirty or more than fifty years with interest payable semi-annu-
ally; and may levy a tax to pay the interest thereon and provide a sink-
ing fund for the redemption of said bonds.*

*Ch. 12, 1922, authorized the city to issue $190,000 of bonds for refunding 1892

Consolidated Debt Bonds.

Ch. 78, 1929, authorized the city to issue $85,000 of Sewer Bonds subject to refer-
endum at general election, 1930.

Ch. 80, 1929, authorized the city to issue $80,000 of bonds for public incinerator
subject to referendum at general election, 1930.

Ch. 385, 1929, authorized the city to issue $50,000 of bonds for Central Fire
Station.