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dred dollars, on the assessable property of said town, and also
for the purpose of grading and paring the streets of said town,
and shall also for the purpose of grading and paving the streets
of said town have power to levy such taxes upon the property
fronting on the street, or portion thereof to be paved, as will
pay the cost of grading and paving the same ; also to have
power to levy and collect such taxes on dogs as they shall by
ordinance prescribe, the same to be collected as other town
taxes ; also to have power to collect from travelling shows or
exhibits that may come to the town such a tax as the by-laws
have power to levy.
267. The president and Commissioners may borrow, on the
faith of said corporation, any sum of money not exceeding
twenty thousand dollars, and issue therefor the bonds of said
corporation, signed by the president, sealed with the seal of
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Levy and col-
lect taxes.
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the corporation and attested by the clerk ; said bonds to bear
interest at the rate of five (5) per cent, per annum, and to be
in sums ranging from one hundred to one thousand dollars,
and payable at such times as they may direct ; provided, that
no bonds shall be issued payable at any period longer than
forty years from the date of issue ; said bonds to be exempt
from taxation for county and municipal purposes ; and the
president and Commissioners shall have power to subscribe,
out of the money arising from the sale of said bonds, such
sums as they may deem proper for the capital stock bonds of
any corporation formed for the purpose of supplying the town
with pure water, gas or electric lights, or sewerage system, or
to loan to such corporation, out of said moneys, such sum as
they may deem proper, the said corporation securing the same
in such manner as to the president and Commissioners may
seem safe and proper.
Approved April 2, 1898.
CHAPTER 160.
AN ACT to lay out and establish a new election district in
Somerset County out of parts of Fairmount District No. 6,
Princess Anne District No. 1 and Brinkley's District No. 3,
of said county, to be called and known as Westover District
No. 13 ; and to provide for the appointment of Justices of
the Peace, the enforcement of existing local option laws now
in force in the territory com prising said district, and to place
said district with Princess Anne, Fairmount and Dublin Dis-
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Power given
to borrow
money.
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