The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1866-10-04

commissioners, as they may designate and ap
point; and upon the failure of any owner of said
sell the same; or to stop the supply of water to
the same, to distrain and sell the personal eff
fects 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 inhabit-
ants of said town with pure and wholesome water,
and to carry into complete effect the powers here
in granted: Provided, That the taxes levied by
virtue of this act shall never he source or reve-
nue. other than as means OF supplying said town
with water.
SEC. 8. And be it further enacted, That in Ievy-
ing said front foot tax, said Corporation shall in
ali cases where lot or lots, part thereof, may
be situated 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 graduate the tax thereon as not to
exceed a tax upon one hundred feet front.
SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That all ordi-
nances 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 resolutions heretofore passed by
said Corporation, particularly 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: re-
solution approved April the tWenty-third, eigh-
teen hundred and ffty-nine, entitled GA resolu-
ton authorizing the tapping of water mains - a
resolution approved May the seventh, eighteen
uuuuTeu anu uliy Hlllc, cHIlliSu n ICSOlutlOu
authorizing the laying of water main up High
street, an ordinance approved May the ninth,
eighteen hundred and fifty y-nine, entitled IAN
ordinance authorizing the distribution OF the Po-
tomac water through the city of Georgetown -
q resolution approved May the fourteenth, eigh-
teen hundred and fifty nine entitled g A resolu
tion repeating a part of resolution for laying a
water main up High street; - an ordinance approx
ed July the second, eighteen hundred and fifty
nine, entitled 81 supplement to an ordinance
authorizing the distribution of the Potomac water
thrOuph the pitV of GEORGETOWN, approved Nav
the ninth, eighteen hundred and tifty-nine;" a
resolution approved July the second, eighteen
approving of certain contracts for distributing
water through the town )" a resolution approved
August the twentieth eighteen hundred and fifty
gine, entitled "A resolution in relation to the
water distribution;" a resolution approved Sep
tember the seventeenth, eighteen hundred and
fifty nine, entitled A resolution authorizing the
water board to purchase water pipes ~ resolu-
ton approved September the seventeenth, egh-
teen hundred and fifty nine, entitled g A resolu-
ton in relation to water distribution;" resolu-
tion approved September the twenty-tourth, egh-
teen hundred and fifty nine, entitled "a resolu-
ton supplementary to a resolution, entitled A
resolution in relation to the water distribution,
approved August the twentieth, eighteen hun
dred and tifty-nine;" resolution approved Sep
tember the twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and
fifty nine entitled resolution in relation TO the
redemption of wafer stock; resolution approv-
ed October tweuty-ninth, eighteen hundred and
fitty-nine, entitled "a resolution in relation to
water mains;'' resolution approved November
the fifth, eighteen hundred and fftynine, entitled
" A resolution approving the contract for patent
water-pipes for Road street," resolution ap-
proved November the nineteenth, eighteen hun
dred and fifty nine, entitled " A resolution re-
pealing portion of the resolution approved April
the twenty-third, eighteen hundred and fifty nine,
in relation to tapping water mains"
SEC. >. And be it further enacted, That in case
of failure to pay any taxes whatever laid by said
corporation by virtue of its vested powers, it
shall be lawful to sell, in the discretion of the
collector or other proper officer, either the real
or 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 twenty -four, entitled g An act sup
Elementary to the act to incorporate the inhabi-
tants of the city of Washington passed the fif-
teenth of May, one thousand eight hundred and
twenty, and for other purposes" as is in the fol-
lowing words, viz Provided, That no sale of
real estate shall be made but where the owner or
tenant of the property has not sufficient personal
estate out of which to enforce Il collection of the
debt DUE" be and the same is hereby repealed.
Sec. e. And be it further enacted, That tue per-
son or persons appointed to collect any taxes i'm
posed by said corporation in pursuance of its
vested powers shall have authority to collect the
same by distress and sale of the goods and chat
tells OF the person chargeable Herewith, but no
such sale shall be made unless ten days previous
notice thereof be given in some newspaper print
ed i'll the District of Columbia, aforesaid; and
the provisions of the acts of Maryland now in
force within said District relating to the right of
replevying personal property taken in execution
for public taxes shall apply to all cases of person
al property taken by distress TO satisfy taxes i'm
posed by virtue of the corporate powers aforesaid
SEC. T. And be it further enacted, That said
corporation shall have power and authority to re-
pair any of the footways of the streets in said
town. and to impose and collect such tax or taxes
the lot or lots, parts thereof, adjoining the
same, may be necessary to pay the expense of
such repairs.
SEC. s. And be it further enacted, That so much
of the first section of the act approved May thirty
one, eighteen hundred and thirty, entitled /" An
act to amend the charter pf Georgetown" as is in
the follow ing words, viz: Provided That moth
ing in this act shall change the manner of giving
notice of the sales of property owned by persons
not residing in the District of Columbia" )" be and
the same is hereby repealed.
Approved May 21, 1862.