A. W. BRADFORD, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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939. For the purpose of defraying all the ex-
penses and costs of said lands, waters, and water
rights as shall be taken or purchased for the pur-
poses aforesaid, and of constructing all works ne-
cessary to the accomplishment of said purposes,
and all expenses incident thereto, the said Mayor
and City Council of Baltimore, shall have authori-
ty in the name of said City to issue certificates of
debt to be denominated on the face, "Baltimore
Water Stock," to an amount not exceeding three
millions and five hundred thousand dollars, and
bearing interest not exceeding -six per cent, per
annum, and to provide by ordinance for the re-
demption of the same at a certain time and under
such provisions as the Mayor and City Council

Mayor and
City Council
authorized to
issue certifi-
cates of debt.

may deem expedient and proper ; the said Mayor
and City Council are hereby authorized and em-
powered to asses water rates for the supply and
use of water at any point in the vicinity of said
water works in Baltimore city and county, and to
assess a water tax on houses and other buildings

Water rents,
&c.

in said city within three hundred feet of the line
of water pipes, provided, they shall not assess a
water tax on any building where the water is not
taken on the premises, for a sum greater than five
dollars nor less than one dollar per annum; and
the Mayor and City Council are hereby authorized
to enforce payment for the use of the water as is
or may be established by the schedule water rates
and of the water tax that may be assessed ; said
payments shall be enforced in the same manner as
the city taxes are or may be collected in said city;

Proviso.

the Mayor and city council are hereby authorized
and empowered to appoint watchmen, or such po-
lice force as may be necessary for the protection of
their water works extending into Baltimore coun-
ty, and to impose fines and penalties for the pro-
tection of the water works and the appurtenances
thereto belonging, to preserve the purity of the
water, and to prevent obstructions or injury to the
water works and their appendages, such fines and
penalties, to be recovered by the same process at
law and in the same manner as provided in article
four, sections two hundred and twenty-nine to two
hundred and thirty-five inclusive, of Public Local
Laws.
Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall
take effect from the day of its passage.

Purity of the
water — its pre-
servation, &c.;
appointment of
officers.

In force.