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FREDERICK COUNTY. [ART. 11.
the supplement thereto, passed at the January session,
eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, chapter three hun-
dred and forty-one, [Sup. 268,] or upon any assessment
hereafter made in pursuance of law, of the real and
personal property within the taxable limits of said cor-
poration, to pay all expenses and debts of said corpo-
ration and all obligations incurred by said corporation
in pursuance of the power vested by the charter or any
supplement thereto.
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Vagrants.
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169. In case any persons be committed to jail for
non-payment of the fine imposed for vagrancy, it shall
and may be lawful for the mayor of Frederick city to
take such persons out of jail during the time for which
they may be committed, and compel them to work
during the time for which they may be committed at
such labor as shall be required by the mayor of Fred-
erick.
In force and approved March 3, 1868.
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FREDERICK AND PENNSYLVANIA LINE RAIL ROAD COMPANY.
By the act of 1868, c. 423, the mayor, aldermen and common council of Frederick,
are authorized and empowered to subscribe to the capital stock of the Frederick and
Pennsylvania Line Rail Road Company, the sum of one hundred and fifty thousand
dollars, and ib the discretion of said Mayor, aldermen and common council, any
further sum not exceeding, in the aggregate, the sum of two hundred and fifty
thousand dollars; and in case a less sum than two hundred and fifty thousand dol-
lars may be subscribed to the said capital stock, then the said mayor, aldermen and
common council are authorized to endorse the bonds of said company to any amount
which, with the amount subscribed to said capital stock, shall not exceed in the
aggregate the sum of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, which endorsement
shall be secured in such manner and on such terms as may be agreed upon between
the said mayor, aldermen and common council, and the said rail road company.
That the said mayor, aldermen and common council, be and they are hereby
authorized and empowered to issue bonds of the corporation of Frederick, bearing
interest not exceeding six per centum per annum, payable semi-annually for such
amount, from tune to time, as may be required to pay the amounts which may be
subscribed to said capital stock, which bonds shall not be subject to taxation for
county or corporation taxes; and to levy on the assessable property within the
limits of said municipal corporation, using as the basis of said levy the assessment
of the real and personal property within the limits of said municipal corporation,
made under the act of eighteen hundred and sixty-six, chapter one hundred and
fifty-seven, and the supplement thereto, passed at the January session, eighteen
hundred and sixty-seven, chapter three hundred and forty-one, or any assessment
hereafter made according to law, such amount of taxes as may be required to pay
the interest on said bonds and the principal debt, should the same become neces-
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