Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-06-17

Be it enacted by the senate and house of
representatives of the United States of Amer
lea in congress assembled, that the mayor, re-
corder, aldermen and common council OF
Georgetown, in the District of Columbia, shall
have full power and authority to levy and col
lect a tax not exceeding sixty cents per front
foot on all lots and parts of lots within said
corporate limits in front of or parallel to which
water mains have been or may hereafter be
laid or, in their discretion, to appropriate from
the corporate funds generally so much money
as may be necessary to supply the inhabitants
of said town with Potomacwater from the aque-
duct mains or pipes now laid or to be laid in
the streets of said town by the United States :
and to make all laws and regulations for the
proper distribution of the same, subject to the
restrictions prescribed by this act and the act
approved March the third, eighteen hundred
and fitty-nine, and entitled ''An act to provide
for the care and preservation of the works con-
structed by the United States for bringing the
Potomac water into the cities of Washington
and Georgetown, for the supply of said water
for all government purposes, and for the uses
and benefits of the inhabitants of said cities''
Sect. q And be it further enacted, that
said corporation shall have full power and au-
thority to collect such taxes, when so fixed,
in advance or otherwise, through such agents,
collectors, or commissioners, as they may
designate and appoint; and upon the failure
of any owner of said lot or lots, or part there
of, to pay said taxes, to sell the same; or to
stop the supply of water to the same; or to
distrain and sell the personal effects of such
owner; and in the case of any sale the same
proceedings shall be observed as are adopted
in enforcing the collection of the general tax
of said town; and generally to enact such
laws as may be necessary to furnish the in
habitants of said town with pure and whole
some water, and to carry into complete effect
the powers herein granted Provided, that the
taxes levied by virtue of this act shall never
be source of revenue other than as a means
of supplying said town with water.
Sect. 3. And be it further enacted, that in
levying said front foot tax, said corporation
shall, in all cases where a lot or lots or part
thereof may be situated at the intersection of
two streets and fronting on the same, so re-
duce and graduate the tax thereon as not to
exceed i'll all tax upon one hundred feet
front; and shall, in all cases where said prop
erty may have front on any one or more
streets, of more than one hundred feet, so re-
duce and graduate the tax thereon as not to
exceed tax upon one hundred feet front.
Sect. 4. And be it further enacted, that all
ordinances and resolutions or parts thereof
relating to the distribution of Potomac water
through said town, and the collection of a
water tax, and the ordinances and resolutions
heretofore passed by said corporation particu-
larly mentioned in this section, be and the
same are hereby ratified and confirmed, said
ordinances and resolutions being described
and identified as follows, to wit A resolution
approved April the twenty-third, eighteen
hundred and forty-nine, entitled "a resolu-
ton authorizing the tapping of water mains !"
a resolution approved May the seventh, eigh-
teen hundred and fifty-nine, entitled ga reso-
luton authorizing the laying of water main
up High street," an ordinance approved May
heninth, eighteen hundred and fifty mine, enti-
tled"An ordinance authorizing the distribution
of Potomac water through the city of George
town." resolution approved May the four
teenth, eighteen hundred and 1fty-nine, en-
titled ga resolution repeating a part Of a res
olution for laying water main up High
street," an ordinance approved July the Sec
ond eighteen hundred and titty-nine, entitled
"a supplement to an ordinance authorizing
the distribution of the Potomac water through
the city of Georgetown, approved May the
ninth, eighteen hundred and fifty-nine;' a
resolution approved July the second, eighteen
hundred and fifty-nine, entitled ga resolution
approving of certain contracts for distributing
water through the town. resolution approx
ed August the twentieth eighteen hundred
and fifty-nine, entitled ga resolution IN rela-
ton to the water distribution" a resolution
approved September the seventeenth, eighteen
hundred and fifty-nine, entitled ga resolution
authorizing the water board to purchase water
pipes a resolution approved September the
seventeenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-nine,
entitled "a resolution in relation to water
distributions" a resolution approved Sep
TENDER the twenty fourth, eighteen hundred
and fifty-nine, entitled ga resolution supple
mentary to a resolution, entitled "a resolution
in relation to the water distribution, approved
August the twentieth, eighteen hundred and
fifty-nne;'" a resolution approved September
the twenty fourth eighteen hundred and fifty
nine, entitled ga resolution in relation to the
redemption of water stock" a resolution APP
proved October twenty ninth, eighteen hun
bred and ffty-nine entitled ga resolution in
relation to water mains;" a resolution ap-
proved November the fifth, eighteen hundred
and fifty-nine entitled "a resolution approx
ing the contract for patent water-pipes for
road street," resolution approved November
the nineteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty
nine, entitled ''A resolution repeating por-
ton of the resolution approved April the twen-
ty-third, eighteen hundred and ffty-nine, in
relation to tapping water MAINS"
Sect. 5. And be it further enacted that in
case of failure to pay any taxes whatever
laid by said corporation, by virtue of its vest
ed powers it shall be lawful to sell, in the dis
erection of the collector or other proper off
GER either the real personal estate, or both,
of the delinquent taxpayer; and so much of
the eighth section of the act approved May
the twenty sixth, eighteen hundred and twen-
ty-four. entitled Gan act supplementary to
the act to incorporate the inhabitants of the
CITY of Washington, passed the fifteenth May,
one thousand eight hundred and twenty, and
for other purposes" as is in the following
words. viz: Crowded, that no sale of real
estate shall be made hut where the owner OF
tenant of the property has not suihclent per
sonal estate out Of which to enforce collec'
ton of the debt due, be and the same Is here
by repealed.
Sect. 6. And be it further enacted, that the
person or persons appointed TO collect any
taxes imposed by said corporation in pursu
ance of its vested powers shall have authority
to collect the same by distress and sale of thu
goods and chattels Of the person chargeabl'
Herewith; but no such sale shallbe made un
less ten days previous notice thereof be gvel
in some newspaper printed in the District o
Columbia aforesaid; and the provisions of tn
acts of Maryland now in force within said dis
trict relating to the right Of replevying per
sonal property taken in execution for publ
taxes, shall apply to all cases of persona
property taken by distress to satisfy taxes i'm
posed by virtue of the corporate powers afore
said
Sect T. And be it further enacted. that sal
corporation shall have power and authority b
repair any of the tootways of the streets i