552 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 304

lic Utilities Company of Westminster, for costs incidental
to such purchase and the sale of said bonds, and for the
operation, maintenance, and extension of said plant and
properties, and for no other purpose or purposes.

SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That The Mayor and
Common Council of Westminster shall charge and collect
for the water supplied to the residents of Westminster and
vicinity, a sum sufficient to pay the expenses necessary for
the operating of the water system, purchased pursuant to
this Act, and any extensions and improvements thereof,
and to pay the interest on and for the redemption of the
bonds issued pursuant to this Act, and the money so
charged and collected shall be kept and maintained in a
fund separate, it being the intention of this Act to enable
The Mayor and Common Council of Westminster to so op-
erate the water supply of said City and vicinity that the
revenue therefrom shall be used to defray the expenses
connected therewith, including the issue of bonds therefor,
provided that if the receipts from such water system shall
be less than the expenses in any year or years, The Mayor
and Common Council of Westminster is hereby authorized,
empowered and directed to levy from time to time, upon
all property liable to taxation in said City, a special tax
sufficient for the purpose of paying said interest and said
bonds when and as they mature, or, at the discretion of
said The Mayor and Common Council of Westminster, to
borrow an amount not exceeding Ten Thousand Dollars
($10, 000. 00) in any one year and to pledge the credit of
the City for the security of the same; provided, however,
that the water rates shall be increased for the succeeding
year sufficient to pay off such deficit. Such special tax,
when and if levied, however, shall not in any one year ex-
ceed Fifty cents ($. 50) on the Hundred Dollars ($100)
assessed value of said property. Said special tax, when and
as levied, shall be a lien upon the property both real and
personal, taxable hereunder, to the same extent that other
taxes levied by said municipal corporation are now, or may
hereafter be, and shall be collected as other taxes in said
City are, or may hereafter be collected. It is the intention
of this Act to make it mandatory upon The Mayor and
Common Council of Westminster to levy a tax against all
the assessable property in Westminster sufficient to meet
and pay the interest on, and principal of the bonds to be
issued pursuant hereto as and when they severally mature,
whenever, and if ever the same cannot be paid from the
charges collected by said The Mayor and Common Council