LLOYD LOWNDES, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

water or water course or any other material which partakes of
or is a part of real estate, or for any right of way which they
may find necessary for conduits for said water to enter in and
distribute through said town, or if such owner is under any
disability or incapacity to contract, or absent or unknown, the
said Board of Supervisors is hereby clothed with the power of
condemnation under the right of eminent domain, as provided
in section 167 of Article 23 of the Code of Public General
Laws as fully as if said section had been herein incorporated,
and their proceedings in such condemnations shall conform to
the provisions of said section 167 of Article 23. The said
Board of Supervisors shall make rales and regulations for the

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erection, management and maintenance of said water and elec-
tric works and establish rates for water and electric service,
and shall make semi-annual reports of their proceedings, and
of the condition of the respective plants to the Burgess and
Commissioners of Williamsport ; they shall have power to
enter into contracts for buildieg said works to contract for
material therefor to employ all necessary labor and clerks, and
to fix their compensation, and the four persons appointed
supervisors shall be appointed for the term of one, two, three
and four years, respectively, as to the first appointees, and their
successors shall be appointed for the term of four years. Any
supervisor stall be eligible for reappointment, and the Burgess
of said town for the time being shall always be ex officio a
member of said Board of Supervisors.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That for the purpose of paying
said bonds at maturity and the interest thereon, the Burgess

Rules and
regulations.

and Commissioners are authorized and required to levy such ,
tax upon the property within the taxable limits of said town
as may be necessary to enable them, in connection with the
revenues arising from said works, to pay said bonds and the
interest thereon and the operating expenses and necessary
repairs to said works, in each year until all of said bonds shall
be paid off ; the said taxes so collected shall be paid to the
treasurer appointed by said Board of Supervisors, and the
amount levied for this purpose shall be in addition to the
amount now authorized by law. The moneys arising from
water rents and electric rents shall be applied, first, to payment
of current expenses of said works, secondly, to payment of
interest on bonds, and thirdly, as to any balance, to provide a
sinking fund for the payment of said bonds; and whenever
any bond is paid off it shall be immediately burned and the
fact noted in the registration book hereinbefore required and

Tax to be
levied.