WORCESTER COUNTY. 5197

1908, ch. 733. 1920 Code, sec. 39.

38. For the purpose of redeeming said bonds at their maturity, and
for securing the prompt payment of the interest thereon, the said Mayor
and Council are hereby empowered and directed to apply all net income
arising from water and light or water or light rents, after the expense of
any necessary betterments or proper repairs, are made—first, to the pay-
ment of the interest on said bonds, and secondly, to invest the remainder,
if any there be, in a sinking fund for the payment of said bonds as they
respectively mature. The coupons on said bonds shall be receivable by
said Mayor and Council in payment of taxes due to said town. In the
event that the said rents shall not be sufficient in amount to pay the
interest on said bonds or the principal thereof as it shall become due, the
said Mayor and Council shall annually levy on the taxable property of
said town such sums of money in addition to the levy hereinbefore pro-
vided for, as shall in their discretion be necessary for the prompt pay-
ment of the interest on said bonds and the principal thereof when the
same may become due. and any surplus on hand at any time arising from
such levy shall be, by the said Mayor and Council, invested in some safe
securities, as a sinking fund, which shall not at any time be diverted from
the purposes of this Act.

1912, ch. 799. 1920 Code, sec. 47.

39. The Mayor and City Council of Berlin shall have power to pro-
vide by ordinance for the establishment and change from time to time of
the grade lines of any street, lane, alley or part thereof now or hereafter
marked, located or laid out; to provide by ordinance for grading, gravel-
ing, shelling, macadamizing, paving or curbing, or any of them, or for
regrading, reshelling, remacadamizing, repaving and recurbing or any of
them, of any street, lane or alley in said city or part thereof now con-
demned, ceded, dedicated or opened as a public highway or which may
hereafter be condemned, ceded, dedicated, opened, widened, straightened
or altered according to the laws and ordinance regulating same, and also
for assessing the cost of any such work not exceeding one-half the cost
upon any property binding upon such street, lane, alley or highway or
part thereof; that is to say, not to exceed one-fourth of said cost upon any
property binding upon each or either side of such street, lane, alley or
highway or part thereof, according to the front foot rule of apportionment
of the cost of improvement or such other equitable basis as it may deter-
mine, and for the collection of the said assessment as other city taxes are
collected or in such manner as it may prescribe, either before or after
the work shall have been done. To provide by ordinance for grading,
macadamizing, paving or curbing or any of them or for regrading, repav-
ing, regraveling, reshelling, remacadamizing or recurbing, of them of any
street, lane, alley or highway or part thereof in said city, whenever the
owners of a majority of the front feet or property binding on such street,
lane, alley or highway or part thereof shall apply for the same, upon terms

and under conditions to be prescribed in said ordinance, and for the as-
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