The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1862-06-10
TPUBLIc No. 7I7

AN ACT to authorize the Corporation OF
Ge9rgeto ~n, 10 the District of Columbia
TO lay and collect water tax, and for
other purposes.
Be 10 enacted 6y the Sfndte and House OF
Representatives. Of the United States of Amer-
iea IN Congress assembled, That the Mayor,
Recorder, Alderman, and Common Council
of Georgetown, in the District of Colum bia,
shall have full power and authority to levy
and collect tax not exceeding sixty ceuIs
per front foot on all lots and parts of lots
within said corporate limits iu front of or
parallel to which water mains have heeu
or may hereafter be laid or, in their dis
cre'ion, TO appropriate from the corporate
funds generally SO much money as may b.
necessary to supply the inhabitants of said
town with Potomac water 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 reeula-
tens for the proper distribution of the
same subject TO the restrictions prescribed
by this act and the act approved March the
tbrd eighteen hundred and ifty-uine, and
entitled :" An act 10 provide for the care
and preservation of the works constructed
by the United States for bringing tie Po-
tomac water into the cities of Washington
and Georgetown. for the supply Of said
water for all Governments purposes. and for
r the uses and benefits OF the inhabiiants of
said cities"
Sec 2. And be IL further enacted, That
said Corporation shall nave full power and
authority to collect such taxes, when 90
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
ar fr
to sell the same or 20 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 pro-
ceediugs shall be observed as are adopted
in enforcing the collection of the general
tax of said town; and generally TO enact
such Law as may be necessary TO furnish
The Inhabitanls of said town with pure and
wholesome water, aud to carry into COM
plete tffec. the powers herein granted
ProUided, That the taTes levied by virtue
of this act shall never be a source of reve-
nue. other than as a means OF supplying
said town With water.
Sec. 3. And be IL further enacted, That
in levy ing said front loot tax said Corpora
ton shall, in sll cases where lot or lots or
part thFreof may be situated at the intersec-
tion OF two streets and fronting on the
same, SO reduce and graduate the tax there
on rs not TO exceed in all tax upon one
hundred feet front and shall, in all cases
where said property may have front on
any one or more streets, of more than one
hundI ed feet, so reduce asd graduate the
tax thereon as not to exceed tax upon
one hundred feet front.
Sec. And be IL. further enacted, That ell
ordinances and resolutions or parts thereof
relating to the distribution of Potomac
water through said town, aud tie collection
OF water tax, and the ordinances aud reso-
lutions heretofore passed by said Corpora
ton particularly men ioued in this sectien,
be and the same are hereby ratified and
confirmed, said ordinances aud resolutions
being described and identified as follows,
to-wit: A resolution approved April the
twenty third, eigh cen hundred ani ifty-
nine, entitled "A resolution authorizing
the tapping of water maius;7 resolution
approved May the seventh, eighteen hun
dred and ffty-nine, entitled "A resolution
authorizing the laying of n water main up
High street" an ordinance approved May
the ninth, eighteen hundred and fifty-nine,
entitled "Au ordinance authorizing the dis
tribution of the Potomac water through |
the city of Georgetown" )" a resolution ap-
proved May the fourteenth, eighteen hun |
repeating part of resolution for laying a |
water main up High street, an ordinance
approved July the second, eighteen hundred |
and ifty-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 y resolu-
ton approved July the second, eighteen |
hundred and flfty-rine, entitled "a resolu-
ton approving of certain contract for dis
tributing water through the town." reso-
luton approved August the twentieth, !
eighteen hundred aud fifty nine, entitled
IA resolution in relation to the water dis
tribution; !" a resolution approved September
the seventeenth, eighteen hundred and
6fty-nine, entitled "a resolution authoriz-
ing the water board to purchase water
pipes;' resolution approved September