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And the Mayor and Councilmen shall have power to regulate or prevent
the storage of gunpowder, tar, pitch, resin, coal oil, benzine, turpentine,
hemp, cotton, nitroglycerine, dynamite, giant powder, petroleum, gasoline,
or gas, or any product thereof, or any other explosives or combustible
material, or any material which may seem to be dangerous, within said
city limits and for one-half mile beyond the same.

Said Mayor and Councilmen shall also have power to extend the water
mains of said city beyond the corporate limits, and sell water to persons
beyond said limits, with the right and privilege reserved to said city to
lessen or abate altogether the supply of water beyond the said city limits
whenever in their judgment it shall be necessary or expedient so to do.
Cochrane v. Frostburg, 81 Md. 54.

TAXES.

P. L. L. (1888), art. 1, sec. 145. 1870, ch. 77. 1916, ch. 61. 1918, ch. 233.
1922, ch. 31. sec. 145.

205. The Mayor and Councilmen of Frostburg may from time to time
cause an assessment to be made of all property, real and personal, of every
kind and description in the Town of Frostburg, by three persons appointed
by them, and may levy and collect a tax on the assessable property of said
city for the general purposes of the corporation not exceeding in only one
year fifty cents on every one hundred dollars' worth of said asssessable
property.

The said Mayor and Councilmen may also levy and collect such a tax,
not exceeding in any one year ten cents on each one hundred dollars' worth
of the assessable property of said city as may be necessary to pay the in-
terest on any bonds or floating indebtedness of said city created prior to
the passage of this Act and to provide a sinking fund for the redemption
or payment thereof at maturity; provided, however, that all present and
future bonded and floating indebtedness of said city shall not exceed at
any one time seven per centum of the assessed valuation of the property
in said city; and further provided, that the Mayor and Councilmen shall
not have power to pledge the faith and credit of said city for any sum
exceeding ten thousand dollars ($10,000.00) without first submitting the
question to the voters of said city after twenty (20) days' notice by hand-
bills or otherwise, and a majority of the legal votes cast being in favor
thereof. The said sum of ten thousand dollars hereby specified being in-
tended 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 the taxes,
licenses, fines, paving assessments and other moneys due said city for the
current year. This provision which limits the Mayor and Councilmen of
Frostburg from pledging the faith and credit of said city beyond the sum
of ten thousand dollars, except as hereinafter provided, is intended as a
limitation and restriction as to the amount said municipality may at any
time hereafter borrow or oblige itself to pay, by contract or otherwise, in
excess of the estimated income and revenue of said city, but shall not be