Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Iowa) 1861-1864, 1862-06-26

SOiitllplu, 10 lay anu COiicCb Wa
ter tax, and for other purposes.
BE Il enacted Jy tie Senate and House Of Repre-
seatdtires Of the Unaed States Of America an Con-
gress assembled, That the Mayor Recorder, Al
dermen, and Common Council of
Georgetown, in the District of Colum-
bia, shall have full power and authori-
ty to levy and collect tax not ex-
ceeding sixty cents per front foot on
all lots and parts of lots within said
corporate limits in front of or paral-
lei to which water mains have been or
may hereafter be laid or in their dis
cretion, to appropriate from the corpo-
rate funds generally so much money
as may be necessary to supply the
inhabitants of said town with Poto-
mac water from the aqueduct 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 reg.
ulatons for the proper distribution of
the same, subject to the restrictions
prescribed by this act and the act ap-
proved March the third, eighteen hun
drcd and fifty-nine, and entitled "An
act to provided for care and preserva-
| tion of the works constructed by the
United States for bringing the Poto-
mac water into the Cities of Wash
ington and Georgetown, for the sup
ply of said water for all Government
purposes, and for the uses and bene-
fits of the inhabitants of said cities"
SEC. 2. And belt further enacted, That
said Corporation shall have full pow
er and authority to collect such taxes,
when SO fixed, in advance or other
wise, through such agents, collectors,
or commissioners, as they may dcsig-
nate aud appoint; and upon the fail.
ure of any owner of said lot or lots,
or part thereof, to pay said taxes, to
sell the same ; or to stop the supply
of water to the same or to distraln 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 inhabi-
tants of said town with pure and
wholesome water, and to carry into
complete effect the powers herein
granted: Prorided, That the taxes lev
| led by virtue of this act shall never
be a source of revenue other than as a
means of supplying said town with
water.
| Sec. 8. And BE- Il further enacted, That
in lcvying such front foot tax said Cor
poration shall, in all cases where a
lot or lots or part thereof may be sit
uatcd at the intersection OF two streets
and fronting on. the same, SO reduce
and graduate the tax thereon as moi
to exceed in all a 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 hundred feet, SO reduce ano
grad uate the tax thereon as not to eX
ceed tax upon one hundred feet front
SEC. 4. Ind be IL further enacted, That
ali ordinances and resolutions or parts
thereof relating to the distribution OF
Potomac water through said town
and the collection Of water
tax, and the ordinances and resolu
tions heretofore passed by said Cor
poration particularly mentioned II
this section, be and the same are
hereby ratified and confirmed, said or
dinances and resolutions being de
scribed and identified as follows, tt
wit: A resolution approved April tho
twenty-third, eighteen hundred anc
tifty-nine, entitled A resolution an
thorizing the tapping of water mains;
} resolution approved May the sew
enth, eighteen hundred and fifty-nine
ectitled a resolution authorizing the
, laying Of a water main up Hlgt
street J" an ordinance approved May
the ninth, eighteen hundred and fifty
nine, entitled AN ordinance authori
zing the distribution of the Potomac
, water through the city of George
town !" a resolution approved May the
fourteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty
, nine, entitled" \ resolution repeating
, part of resolution for laying a wa
ter main up High street" an ordinance
/ approved July the second, eighteel
hundred aud iifty-nine, entitled 4
supplement to an ordinance authori
zing the distribution of the Potoma,
water through the city of George
town, approved May the ninth, eight
cen hundred and fifty-nine y reso
| luton approved July the second
| eighteen hundred and fifty-nine, emit
: tied I" A resolution approving Of cel
t tain contracts for distributing waite
through the town )" resolution ap
/, proved August the twentieth, eight
| cen hundred and filty-nine, entitled
+ "A resolution in relatol to the wa
= ter distribution resolution ap