The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-03-07

istence, and have through their officers and
agents exclusive charge of the same when
erected and in course Of erection, and of sll
material and property used in supplying the
city Of Philadelphia and the inhabitants
thereof with water; and for the purpose Of
erecting new water works, or enlsrging those
now in existence, the said Board of Oommis-
sioners to supply the city with water shall
have the right, and they are hereby authorized,
to issue bonds maturing in thirty years in the
name of the city of Philadelphia, for such
sum or sums as may be necessary to erect
said water works or enlarge the present
works, and for the purchase of the necessary
machinery; and said bonds shall bear interest
at rate not exceeding six per centum per
annum, and shall be known as the "City Water
Bonds, and have that Endorsement thereon,
and be executed by the President of the Board
of Commissioners to supply the city with
water, attested by the clerk thereof with the
seal of the department attached thereto; and
it shall be the duty of the Receiver of
Taxes to add to the tax rate annually an item
sufficient to pay the interest accruing on such
bends, and to raise one-thirtieth of the amount
OF said bonds each year for the payment of
said bonds at maturity, which said sum shall
be credited by the Treasurer of the city to
fund for the payment of the same; and the
fund raised as aforesaid is hereby exclusively
dedicated to the payment of the same.
Section 4. Said board shall make requisi-
tions on the Councils of the city of Phila-
delpbia on or before the 1st day of Decem-
Der in every year hereafter, for the amount
of money required by them for the purposes
of the Board of Commissioners to supply
the city with water, and said Councils shall,
within thirty days thereafter, pass an ordi-
nance levyiDg a tax sufficient to raise the
amount so required: Provided, that Councils
may at any time make appropriations out of
the annual tax for the purposes of this act.
Section 8. All appropriations made by
Councils of the city of Philadelphia to the
present Department for Supplying the City
with Water are hereby transferred to the
Board of Commissioners to supply the city of
Philadelphia with water, created by this act,
and hereafter the City Treasurer shall pay
money out of the said appropriations as we'll
as out of all appropriations hereafter made,
only upon warrants drawn upon the Trea
surer aforesaid by the president of said board,
attested by the clerk thereof, with the seal of
the said board attached, and hereafter the
said Treasurer shall open an account
as that of the Board of Commissioners
for Supplying the City with Water,
and enter in the said account the items of
appropriations transferred by this section, as
well as all appropriations hereafter made by
Councils to said board, aud it shall be the
duty of the City Controller to countersign all
aforesaid, upon being furnished by the board
with a certificate that the work has been
done, or that the amount for which the war;
rant is drawn was contracted according to
law, and it shall be the duty of the Treasurer
of the city, upon presentation, to pay the
same.
Section 6. It shall be the duty of the board,
Immediately after their organization, to enter
upon and take possession of the offices, books,
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phia in the care, custody, or control of the
present Department for Supplying the City
with Water, and it is hereby made the duty
of the Chief Engineer of Water and the Re-
gister of Water to transfer and deliver to the
said board all books, papers, and property in
their possession and belonging to the city of
Philadelphia.
Section 7. Said board shall have the right
to appoint such officers and employ such
agents and persons as they shall deem neces-
sary, and the same to remove at pleasure, and
to fix the compensation of the persons en-
ployed, and to make such contract or con-
tracts as the board may consider necessary,
which shall be executed on their part by the
President and attested by the clerk, and seal
of said board to be made for the purposes of
this act, and shall have the further right and
authority to do such other act or acts as may
be necessary to carry out the intent of this
act.
Section s. The qualified electors of the city
of Philadelphia shall, on the second Tuesday
in October, 1876, and every five years there
after, vote at their respective polls for three
of the electors aforesaid for the Office of
members of the Board OF Commissioners for
! Supplying the City of Philadelphia with
| Water; and the five persons voted for, who
shall be found at the closing of the polls on
| the day aforesaid TO have received the highest
number of votes for the said office for Com
missioner of the Board for Supplying the City
with Water, shall he declared elected, and
shall hold their office for the period of five
years from the first Monday in November
| following their said election, and until their
successors are duly qualified: Provided, That
the mode of conducting said election shall be
in the manner and under the law providing
for the election of other municipal officers in
the city of Philadelphia.
Section 8. In the event of vacancy occur
ring among the members of the board, it shall
be the duty of the remaining members by vote
70 ELL said vacancy for the remainder of the
said term of five years: Provided, that at no
time in the said board shall there be more
! thar three members of one and the same
political party, and any election by which this
is interfered with shall be nall and void; and
in the event of a majority of said board re-
fusing to elect in accordance with this provi-
sion for one month after said vacancy shall
have occurred, it shall be the duty of the
Court of Common Pleas of the city of Phila-
delphia to appoint person Of such political
party as will carry out the intent of this sec
! tiop,
Section 10. The duties imposed by this act
on said board are exclusive, and any laws on
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