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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

a tax of ten cents upon every hundred dollars of assessable

Proviso.

property within the corporate limits of said Taneytown, and

provided further that said annual payments shall not begin

until the said town has been supplied with water.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That in order to enable

To carry
out provis-

the burgess and commissioners of Taneytown to carry out

ions of this

the provisions of this act the said burgess and commission-

act.

ers are hereby authorized, empowered and directed to levy

annually upon the taxable property within the corporate

limits of Taneytown in addition to the corporation taxes

now or that may hereafter be allowed by law, a water tax

to be levied and collected the same as other corporation taxes

are levied and collected, and that the said taxes levied and

collected for a water tax shall be kept as a separate fund

and shall not be used for any other purpose than to pay said

body corporate or joint stock water company the interest on

the cost of supplying said town with water and the erection

of fire plugs or hydrants as hereinbefore provided ; and the

burgess and commissioners of Taneytown shall levy annually

and collect for this purpose a water tax not exceeding ten

cents upon every hundred dollars of assessable property

within the corporate limits of Taneytown.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted. That the burgess and

commissioners of Taneytown be and they are hereby em-

Power to
order an

powered to order an election, to be held at such time as they

election

shall designate, after the same notice and in the same man-

ner as corporate elections of said town are now held to take

the sense of the people in respect to water works, for said

town, and at such election the qualified voters then resid-

ing within the corporate limits of said town, be and they are

hereby authorized to cast a ballot "For the contract for

water works" or a ballot "Against the contract for water

works;" and that the result of such election shall be certi-

fied in the manner of certifying corporate elections, to the

burgess and commissioners of said town, and if the majority

of the votes cast at said election be, "For the contract for

water works " the said burgess and commissioners shall be

forthwith empowered and authorized to carry out and give

effect to the terms and provisions of this act in respect to a

contract with said body corporate or joint stock water com-

pany as hereinbefore provided, but if a majority of the

votes cast at said election shall be, "Against the contract

for water works ; " then this act to be null and void.

SEC. 4. Any acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this

Repealed.

act are hereby repealed.

Approved April 7th, 1892.