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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

and paid in the state treasury in eighteen hun-
dred and eighty-three, the passage of the bill
having been recommended by the officers of the
treasury department of this state.

Effective.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall
take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved March 14, 1888.

Chapter 85.

AN ACT to authorize the mayor and common
council of the town of Union Bridge, Carroll
county, Maryland, to levy a water-tax, and to
issue bonds for the purchase of fire apparatus.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General As-
sembly of Maryland, That the mayor and com-

Levy addi-
tional tax.

mon council of the town of Union Bridge,
Carroll county, Maryland, be and are hereby
authorized to levy on the assessable property of
said town an additional tax, not exceeding fif-
teen cents on the one hundred dollars, for pay-
ing such charges and rents to the Union Bridge
Water Company for the use of water as the
said mayor and common council may deem it
right to contract for, or may have contracted
for.
SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the said mayor

Issue addi-
tional; bonds.

and common council be and are hereby author-
ized to issue additional bonds, not to exceed
twenty-nine hundred dollars in amount, the
proceeds thereof to be applied to the payment
of such fire engine, hook-and-ladder truck and
appliances and apparatus as may have or may
be purchased for the use of said town, as far as
may be necessary therefor, and the proceeds of
the balance of said bonds to be applied to such
uses of said town as the said mayor and com-

Interest on
bonds.

mon council may deem right ; the said bonds
shall bear interest not exceeding six per centum
per annum, payable annually, and shall be pay-
able in twenty years from date, or earlier, at