578 LAWS OF MARYLAND [CH. 307
charges by an action of assumpsit or by both a bill in
equity and a suit at law as aforesaid. The Treasurer of
the Town shall accept no taxes on real estate unless ten-
dered at the same time payment of all front foot assess-
ments and sewer service charges shown on his books as
liens on the property with respect to which taxes are
tendered. The Town is hereby authorized and empowered
to adopt and pass all needful ordinances, which shall have
the force and effect of law, to carry the preceding provi-
sions of this section into effect. All front foot assessments,
sewer service charges and connection charges collected by
the Treasurer of the Town shall be deposited as received
into a special account or accounts in one or more banks to
be designated by the Town and to be known and designated
as the "Union Bridge Sewer Bond Fund". Said Fund shall
be first applied to the cost of maintaining, operating and
keeping in repair said sewerage system and treatment
plant and the balance at the end of each fiscal year shall
be applied to the payment of the interest on the bonds, the
issue of which is hereinafter authorized, and to the pay-
ment of the principal of said bonds as the same shall fall
due, and for no other purpose. Should the revenue derived
from the collection of the above-mentioned front foot as-
sessments, sewer service charges and connection charges
be inadequate for the proper maintenance, operation and
repair of said sewerage system and treatment plant, or for
other good and sufficient reason, the Town is hereby
authorized to levy from time to time upon all property
subject to assessment for taxation within the corporate
limits of the Town such taxes as may be necessary for the
proper maintenance, operation and repair of said sewerage
system and treatment plant, without regard to any present
or future limitation or limitations on the taxing powers of
the Town.
493. The Town is hereby authorized and empowered to
borrow at one time or from time to time, upon the faith
and credit of the Town, and to issue and sell at one time
or from time to time its bonds therefor, a sum or sums of
money not exceeding in the aggregate $400, 000, for all or
any one of the following purposes: (a) financing, design-
ing, constructing, establishing, maintaining in good work-
ing order and operating a sewerage system in the Town
and a sewage treatment plant within or without the cor-
porate limits of the Town, including storm water and other
drainage system in the Town, (b) the acquisition of land
or any interest therein for such sewerage system and sew-
age treatment plant, (c) paying the expenses of engrav-
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