WASHINGTON" COUNTY. 4851

for the purpose of supplying to such inhabitants a suitable and adequate
supply of water for manufacturing, industrial and domestic purposes, and
protection against fire, and the use of sewers as may be reasonably neces-
sary for said town and immediate vicinity thereof.

1910, ch. 33, sec. 5 (p. 1185).

515. The said Burgess and Commissioners are hereby directed to apply
the revenues and receipts arising from water rents and sewer charges, if
any, first to the necessary care, repairs, betterment and maintenance, en-.
largement or extension of the waterworks and system thereof and sewers;
and after such expenditures, then to the payment of the interest on said
bonds; and any remainder of such revenue and receipts to be invested in
safe securities as a sinking fund, to be applied to the payment of the
principal of said bonds as soon as they become redeemable. In the event
that the aforesaid net revenues and receipts are insufficient to pay the
interest on said bonds when due, or to redeem any of said bonds if re-
demption in whole or part be determined upon, after the expiration of
ten years from date of issue of said bonds, the said Burgess and Com-
missioners are hereby authorized to apply thereto any revenues derived
by said town from licenses and fines; and are also hereby authorized and
empowered to levy on the taxable property of the said town a special tax
not exceeding fifty cents on the one hundred dollars, as shall iu their
judgment be necessary for the payment of the interest on said bonds, or
any deficiency therefor, or for the redemption of said bonds, or any part
of the same or any deficiency therefor. If any surplus funds arise from
the sources herein mentioned, such surplus shall be passed to the sinking
fund above provided for, and in no instance shall such fund be diverted
from the purposes of this Act.

1910, ch. 33, sec. 6 (p. 1185).

516. The said Burgess and Commissioners are authorized and em-
powered to contract for, purchase in fee simple or lease for a term of
years, any land, real estate, spring, brook, water and water courses, to
dig, bore and sink wells, to erect any and all reservoirs, storage dams and
standpipes for the storage of water, as may be necessary and expedient;
to lay all pipes and conduits, erect fire plugs, to purchase all necessary
machinery, supplies and material necessary to be used in building, con-
structing, operating or maintaining said waterworks or extending the
same, to make and construct sewers, to purchase all material and supplies
necessary, to employ all necessary labor, or they may, in their discretion,
let out the whole or any part of said work to contractors as they may deem
to the best interest of said town, and they are authorized to employ engi-
neers, superintendents and foremen to lay out and supervise said work.

1910, ch. 33, sec. 7 (p. 1186).

517. If the said Burgess and Commissioners cannot agree with the
owner or owners of any real estate or leasehold estate, spring, brook,
stream, water or water course, or with the owner or owners of any real