ELIHU E. JACKSON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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provided, that to each and every drain hereinbefore named and

designated, the sum of one dollar and sixty-eight cents per linear

foot, according to the distances hereinbefore set forth, shall be

appropriated to be applied and used exclusively upon each of the
hereinbefore named drains, upon the basis of the lengths herein-

before set forth; provided, that if any drain hereinbefore named

and designated, shall be fully constructed at a cost of less than

said sum of one dollar and sixty-eight cents per foot, then the

unexpended balance or surplus from said drain shall be appro-

priated to the completion of any drain hereinbefore named and

designated, if there shall be found to be a deficiency in the sum

Deficiency

appropriated for the completion of any of said drains, and for the

purpose of defraying the cost and expense of grading and maca-

damizing streets, the mayor and council are empowered and re-

quired to borrow an additional sum of money, not to exceed eight

thousand dollars, on the faith and credit of the town, as herein-

after provided, which shall be known and designated as a special

street fund, to be used and applied exclusively to such portions

of streets as are hereinafter named, that have not been graded and

macadamized, viz : North Mulberry street, South Locust street,

Prospect street, south of Baltimore street, North street, Way-

side avenue, Winter street, Fair ground avenue, James street,

Green lane, George street, Norway avenue, Antietam street, Church

street, Bethel street, Broadway avenue, Mary Ann street, and war-

rants for the expenditure of the same shall be drawn by the board

of street commissioners, as provided in section one hundred and

sixty-seven of this article.

202. To provide for borrowing the money as authorized by the

preceding section, the mayor and council are empowered to issue

bonds in such denominations as they may determine; said bonds

to be signed by the mayor and attested by the clerk to the mayor

and council with the seal of the town attached, and registered in

Bonds.

a book to be kept by the said clerk and to bear interest at the

rate of four per centum per annum, payable on the first days of

January and July in each, and every year, until the principal of

said bonds is paid; said bonds to be sold at public auction at such

times and in such amounts as shall be required by the mayor and

council by the board of street commissioners; provided, the whole
amount of said bonds issued shall not exceed thirty thousand dol-

lars in addition to the bonds already issued, and said bonds shall

not be liable to county and municipal taxation.

203. And to provide for the payment of said bonds as authorized

by section two hundred and two as they shall mature, and for the

Payment.

payment of the annual interest thereon, there shall be levied by

the mayor and council annually, for two years, an amount suff-

cient to pay the interest on the said bonds so issued, and at the

expiration of two years there shall be levied, annually, by the

mayor and council an amount sufficient to pay the interest on the