LLOYD LOWNDES, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

gil may allow him therefor such additional compensation as
they may deem reasonable ; and all moneys delived from
water rent shall be used first, for the payment of the current
expenses of said water works ; secondly, for the payment of
the interest when due on the bonds authorized by this Act to
be issued ; and thirdly, as to any balance to provide a sinking
fund for the payment of said bonds at their maturity ; and said
water board is hereby authorized and directed to make suita-
ble provisions for the protection of the property in said town
from fire by providing a suitable number of fire pings or pub-
lic hydrants properly adapted to that purpose and conveniently
situated for use.

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SBC. 4. And be it enacted, That the title to said water
works, and all lands, estates, water courses, water ways, conduit
pipes, machinery, and all other parts thereof whatever, and all
property belonging and pertaining thereto shall, when com-
pleted or acquired, vest in the Mayor and Town Council of
Oakland, and any person who shall knowingly or wilfully
pollute any spring, stream, brook, water course or reservoir in
connection with the water works, so built or erected by throw-
ing any impure or deleterious substance or thing into the same
or by swimming, bathing or washing themselves, or by wash-
ing clothes or any other unclean or impure thing therein, or by
committing any nuisance in or near the sources of supply or
the reservoir for said water works so as to pollute the same,
shall upon conviction of such offense, be liable to a fine of not
less than tive nor more than fifty dollars for each offense, to be
recovered by the Mayor and Town Council of Oakland
before a justice of the peace as other fines are recoverable, one-
half of such fine to go to the informer, and the balance to the
Mayor and Town Council of Oakland, for the purposes of this
Act.

Title to said
water works,
etc., vested ,
in mayor
and town;
council.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That to redeem said bonds the
Mayor and Town Council is authorized and shall annually levy
upon the assessable property in said town a tax sufficient to pay
the interest upon the bonds so issued under the provisions of
this Act, and so .much of the principal thereof as shall annu-
ally mature according to the respective tenor of the aforesaid
bonds, and said levy shall be designated as the "Water Board
Debt;" provided, however, that no such issue of bonds by the
Mayor and Town Council of Oakland, as above set forth, shall
be made until the question of such issue shall have been sub-
mitted to the qualified voters of the said town of Oakland by
the Mayor and Town Council thereof by at least ten days'

Tax to be
levied.