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

Columbia, to lay and collect a wa
ter tax, and for other purposes.
BE IL enacted BIZ The Senate and House of Repre-
seatatipes Of the United States Of Amerca IN Con
gress assembled, That the Mayor, Recorder, AL
dermen, and Common Council of
Georgetown, in the District of Column
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
erection, 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
ulations 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 iifty-nine, and entitled "An
act to provided for care and preserva-
ton 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
err 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 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 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
means of supplying said town with
water.
Sec. 3. 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
uated at the intersection Of two streets
and fronting on the same, so reduce
and graduate the tax thereon as 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 hundred feet, so reduce and
grad uate the tax thereon as not to eX-
coed tax upon one hundred feet front.
SEC. 4. And be IL further enacted, That
ali ordinances and resolutions or parts
thereof relating to the distribution OF
Potomac water through said town
and tho collection Of q water
tax, and the ordinances and resolu-
tons heretofore passed by said Cor
poration particularly mentioned in
this section, be and the same are
hereby ratified and confirmed, said or
dinances and resolutions being de,
scribed and identified as follows, to
wit: A resolution approved April the
twenty-third, eighteen hundred and
fifty-nine, entitled A resolution an.
thorizing the tapping ofwatcr mains;'
a resolution approved May the sew
entb, eighteen hundred and titty-nine,
ectitled "A resolution authorizing the
laying of water main up High
street :" an ordinance approved May
the ninth, eighteen hundred and fifty
nine, entitled "An ordinance authors
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" 4 resolution repeating
part of resolution for laying wa
ter main up High street" AN ordinance
approved July the second, eighteen
hundred and fifty-nine, entitled 4
supplement to an ordinance authori
ling the distribution of the Potoma,
water through the city of George
town, approved May the ninth, eight
cen hundred and fifty-nine )" reso
luton approved July the second
eighteen hundred and ffty-nine, emit
, tied " n resolution approving OF Ger
tain contracts for distributing wate
through the town )" a resolution ap
proved August the twentieth, eight
cen hundred and fiity-nine, entitled
+ a resolution in rclat.oa to the wa
: ter distribution a resolution ap