THOMAS SWANN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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est not exceeding six per cent per annum, and
to provide by ordinance for the redemption of
the same at a certain time, and under such pro-
visions as the Mayor and City Council may deem
expedient and proper; the said Mayor and City
Council are hereby authorized and empowered to

assess rates for the supply and use of water at any
point in Baltimore City and County, to assess
a water tax on houses and other buildings in said
city, within three hundred feet of a line of water

To assess
rates.

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 tor the use of the water, and
other expenses incurred in the introduction of
water from the water mains, according to the rates
established by the said Mayor and City Council,

Proviso.

and for the water tax assessed, said payments to
be enforced by the same process that City or State
taxes are collected, or they may be collected by
process before a Justice of the Peace, or in any of
the Courts of the city of Baltimore having jurisdic-
tion in such cases; and the said Mayor and City
Council are hereby authorized and empowered to
appoint watchmen or such police force as may be
necessary for the protection of their water works in
the city and county of Baltimore, and to impose

How collect-
ed.

fines and penalties for interference with or injury
to the works or their appendages, to prevent
the water from being obstructed or contaminated,
and to prohibit all meddling or tampering with
the water works and their appurtenances; said
fines and penalties shall be enforced as provided in
article four, section two hundred and twenty-nine
to two hundred and thirty-five inclusive, of the
Public Local Laws.

Penalties for
injury.

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take;
effect from the day of its passage.

In force.