ART. 4. ] CITY OF BALTIMORE. 53

WATER.

The Act of 1862, ch. 83, repeals section 939 and substitutes the following:

61. For the purpose of defraying ₍all the expenses and costs of
said lands, waters, and water rights as shall be taken or pur-
chased for the purposes aforesaid, and of constructing all works
necessary to the accomplishment of said purposes, and all ex-
penses incident thereto, the said mayor and city council of Bal-
timore, shall have authority in the name of said city to issue cer-
tificates of debt to be denominated on the face, "Baltimore
Water Stock, " to an amount not exceeding three millions and
five hundred thousand dollars, and bearing interest not exceed-
ing six per cent, per annum, and to provide by ordinance for the
redemption of the same at a certain time and under such provi-
sions as the mayor and city council may deem expedient and
proper; the said mayor and city council are hereby authorized
and empowered to assess water rates for the supply and use of
water at any point in the vicinity of said water works in Balti-
more city and county, and to assess a water tax on houses and
other buildings in said city within three hundred feet of the line
of water pipes, provided, they shall not assess a water tax on any
building where the water is not taken on the premises, for a sum
greater than five dollars nor less than one dollar per annum;
and the mayor and city council are hereby authorized to enforce
payment for the use of the water as is or may be established by
the schedule water rates and of the water tax that may be assess-
ed; said payments shall be enforced in the same manner as the
city taxes are or may be collected in said city; the mayor and
city council are hereby authorized and empowered to appoint
watchmen, or such police force as may be necessary for the pro-
tection of their water works extending into Baltimore county,
and to impose fines and penalties for the protection of the water
works and the appurtenances thereto belonging, to preserve the
purity of the water, and to prevent obstructions or injury to the
water works and their appendages, such fines and penalties, to
be recovered by the same process at law and in the same man-
ner as provided in article four, sections two hundred and twen-
ty-nine to two hundred and thirty-five inclusive, of Public
Local Laws.
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