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deemed to prohibit said city from entering into any contract or borrow-
ing money for the payment of any permanent improvement where the city
is to be reimbursed in part by the abutting property owners, in which
event this limitation shall apply only to the city's proportionate part of
the cost of said improvement.

But if the Mayor and Councilmen shall be authorized by the vote above
mentioned at any time to pledge the credit of the city to an 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, payable in not less than fifteen or more than thirty
years with interest payable semi-annually; said bonds to be free from all
State, county and municipal taxes; the said Mayor and Councilmen may
levy a tax to pay the interest thereon and provide a sinking fund for the
redemption of said bonds.*

1927, ch. 50.

206. In addition to the powers of taxation given the Mayor and Coun-
cilmen of Frostburg by Section 205, the Mayor and Councilmen may also-
levy and collect such an additional tax not exceeding in any one year five
(5c) cents on each one hundred ($100.00) dollars' worth of assessable-
'property of said city as may be necessary for the purpose of purchasing
and maintaining fire fighting equipment for the use of the Frostburg Fir&
Department and for general maintenance of the said Frostburg Fire De-
partment. All moneys realized from said tax shall be kept by the Mayor
and Councilmen in a special fund to be known as the Fire Department
Fund and shall be used for no other purpose other than those herein
specified. All payments out of said fund to said Fire Department shall
be within the discretion of the Mayor and Councilmen of Frostburg.

P. L. L. (1888), art. 1, sec. 146. 1878, ch. 255.

207. Any person may appeal from the valuation made by the said
assessors to the Mayor and Councilmen; and the said Mayor and Coun-
cilmen shall meet at the council chamber on the first Monday in June
in each year, and remain in session one day, or longer, if necessary, for
the purpose of hearing and determining such appeals, and shall give notice
of such meeting in such manner as they shall prescribe; and upon failure
so to meet, the said Mayor and Councilmen, unless prevented by sickness
or unavoidable accident, shall each forfeit the sum of five dollars; and
they may at such meetings examine the party appealing or any other per-
son, on oath, touching the particular value of the property assessed, and
may reduce or increase the assessments as may seem just.

P. L. L. (1888), art. 1, sec. 147. 1870, ch. 77. 1902, ch. 88, sec. 147.

208. Whenever they shall levy a tax, the Mayor and Councilmen shall
make out an alphabetical list of the persons chargeable therewith, and

*Under authority of this section, voters approved $55,000 of water bonds at
special election Oct. 23, 1922.