The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1884-04-26
LOCAL Law
Passed at the Session Of the Gcaerat
assembly Of Maryland, 1881
CHAPTER 227.

CHAPTER 227.
AN ACT to authorize the Mayor and Com
mon Council of the city of Westminster to
issue its Bonds or Certificates of Indebted
ness to an amount not exceeding Twenty
Five Thousand Dollars, for the purpose Of
providing means for the Grading, Paving,
or matchmaking the Streets in the city of
Westminster and the Construction of Sewers.
SECTION l. Be it enacted by the General
Assembly of Maryland, That the Mayor and
Common Council of Westminster be, and
they are hereby, authorized and empowered
to issue Bonds in the name of the Mayor and
Common Council of Westminster, in sums
not less than one hundred dollars nor more
than one thousand dollars, to be signed by the
Mayor and countersigned by the Clerk of said
Common Council of Westminster, not exceed
ing In the whole the sum of twenty-five thou
sand dollars, bearing interest not exceeding
six per centum per annum, payable semi-
annually, on the first day of January and ON
the first day of July in each and every year;
and said bonds shall not be disposed of at less
than the par value thereof, and the same shall
be exempt from county and municipal taxa
ton. II.
SECTION 3 And be it enacted, That the
said bonds shall be issued payable twenty.
years from the date thereof, and redeemable
at any time after the expiration of ten years
from the date thereof, at the pleasure Of the
Mayor and Common Council Of Westminster,
and the said bonds shall be consecutively
numbered as the same shall be issued
SECTION 3. And be it enacted, That the
said sum of twenty-five thousand dollars, or
so much thereof as may be necessary for this
purpose, shall be, by the said Mayor and
Common Council, used and applied exclu-
sively to the payment of the costs and ex-
penses of paving, grading or matchmaking,
and in construction of sewers, in such street
or streets in said city of Westminster as the
said Mayor and Common Council may order
and direct.
SECTION 4. And be it enacted, That the
said Mayor and Common Council be, and
they are hereby, authorized and required in
each and every year to levy and collect spe-
cial tax, not exceeding ten cents on every one
hundred dollars worth of the taxable property
of all kinds and descriptions liable to assess
ment and taxation within the corporate limits
of the city of Westminster, to pay the interest
on the outstanding bonds by them issued I'M
der the provisions of this act as the same shall
fall due, and to gradually redeem and retire
such bonds until they shall all have been re-
deemed and retired, and the proceeds of such
tax shall be paid to the said Mayor and Com
mon Council, and forthwith by them applied
as soon as they shall become redeemable, and
the said taxes are hereby inviolably pledged
to the payment of the interest and principal
of said bonds.
SECTION 5. And be it further enacted,
That the Mayor and Common Council of
Westminster be, and they are hereby, author
lied and empowered to take the sense of the
people of the city of Westminster in relation
to the issuing of the bonds provided for in
this act, by submitting the question to the
qualified voters of said city, on such day and
at said place and between such hours Of the
day as the said Mayor and Common Council
may order and direct, which shall be not
more than thirty days after the passage of this
law; and at such election the qualified voters
of said city are authorized to cast ballot
''For Paving or Macadamizing Streets and
Construction of Sewers" or ballot against
Paving or Matchmaking Streets and Con-
struetion of Sewers" and the result of such
election shall be certified TO the said Mayor
and Common Council of Westminster; and if
the majority of the votes cast be ''For Paving
or Matchmaking of Streets and Construction
| of Sewers" the said Mayor and Common
Council shall be forthwith authorized and EN-.
powered to exercise the authority vested in
! them by the provisions of this act.
SECTION 6. And be it enacted, That this
act shall take effect from the date of its pas
sage.
J. PEMBROKE THOM,
Speaker of the House of Delegates.
HENRY LLOYD,
President of the Senate.
Approved 9Th April, 1884
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