JOHN WALTER SMITH, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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issued by said municipal corporation in pursuance of an Act
of the General Assembly, passed at the January Session, eigh-
teen hundred and ninety-two, chapter 128 ; the amount of saic
bonds issued in pursuance of the aforesaid Act being clever
thousand dollars, and which are redeemable at the pleasure oi
said Burgess and Commissioners, in accordance with the con-
ditions of said bonds on and after said date, April 1, 1903.
SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the said Bunjess and Com-
missioners of Middletown be and they are hereby authorized

CHAP. 73.

to issue coupon bonds in the name of said municipal corpora-
tion to an amount not exceeding ten thousand dollars, which
said bonds shall be signed by the Burgess and countersigned by
the Register of the town of Middletown, and attested by the
corporate seal of said town, and shall bear interest from April
1, 1903, at not exceeding four per centum per annum, payable
semi-annually, on the first day of October and the first day of
April in each year ; said bonds to be issued in denominations
not exceeding five hundred dollars each, and to bear date April
1, 1903, and shall be payable at a time not exceeding thirty
years from date, and redeemable at the pleasure of said corpo-
ration after twenty years from their date.
SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the said Burgess and Com-
missioners of Middletown be and they are hereby authorized

Authorized
to issue bonds

and empowered, at such time and in such manner as they may
deem best, on and after the first day of April, in the year
nineteen hundred and four, to call in and redeem the bonds
issued by said municipal corporation in pursuance of the Act
of the General Assembly passed at the January Session,
eighteen hundred and ninety-four, chapter 31 ; the amount of
said bonds issned in pursuance of the aforesaid Act, being
three thousand five hundred dollars ($3,500), and which bonds
are redeemable at the pleasure of said Burgess and Commis-
sioners in accordance with the conditions thereof, on and after
said date, April 1, 1904.
SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That the said Burgess and Com-
missioners of Middletown be and they are hereby authorized

Bonds to be
redeemed.

to issue coupon bonds in the name of said municipal corpora-
tion, to an amount not exceeding three thousand dollars (in
addition to the bonds authorized to be issued in section 2 of
this Act), which said bonds shall be signed by the Burgess
and countersigned by the Register of the town of Middletown,
and attested by the corporate seal of said town, and shall bear
interest from their date at a rate not exceeding four per
centum per annum, payable semi-annually on the first day of
October and the first day of April in each year ; said bonds to
be issued in denominations not exceeding five hundred dollars

Coupon
bonds to be
issued.