ROBERT M. McLANE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

291

ville; thence in a straight line to the northwest cor-

ner of the Episcopal parsonage lot; thence in a straight

line to the place of beginning; and the commissioners

Commission-

for Rockville are hereby authorized and empowered,

ers cause sur-

whenever they think proper, to cause the said town to

vey.

be surveyed and platted in accordance with said limits,

and to establish the boundaries thereof and file a

record thereof among the land records of said county.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take

Effective.

effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 8, 1884.

Chapter 387.

AN ACT to authorize the Mayor and Common Coun-

cil of the city of Westminster to issue its bonds or

certificates of indebtedness to an amount not ex-

ceeding twenty-five thousand dollars, for the purpose

of providing means for the grading, paving or

macadamizing the streets in the city of Westminster

and construction of sewers.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly

of Maryland, That the Mayor and Common Council

of Westminster be and they are hereby authorized and

empowered to issue bonds, in the name of the Mayor

and Common Council of Westminster, in sums not less

than one hundred dollars nor more than one thousand

dollars, to be signed by the mayor and countersigned

Mayor &c., of

by the clerk of said common council of Westminster,

Westminster to

not exceeding in the whole the sum of twenty-five

iesue bonds.

thousand dollars, bearing interest not exceeding six

per centum per annum, payable, semi-annually, on the
first day of January and on the first day of July in

each and every year, and said bonds shall not be dis-

posed of at less than the par value thereof, and the

same shall be exempt from county and municipal

taxation.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the said bonds shall

be issued payable twenty years from the date thereof,