The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1884-04-19
DUBLIc LOCAL LAW
Passed at the Session Of the Genera,
Assembly of Maryland, 1881
CHAPTER 227


AN ACT to authorize the Mayor and r.
mon Council of the city of Westmius,o, ;.
issue its Bonds or Certificates of Ipdeb,.S
ness to an amount not exceeding Twen,,
Five Thousand Dollars, for the burmese -
providing means for the Grading, PAWN,
or Macadamizing the Streets in the c;tv ec
Westminster and the Construction of Sewer,
SECTION l. Be it enacted BY the Garo..,
Assembly of Maryland, That the Mayor ond
Common Council of Westminster he anJ
they are hereby, authorized and empoweraJ
to issue Bonds in the name of the Mavor ~
Common Council of Westminster. in Gnu 1nu
not less than one hundred dollars nor n n',ns
than one thousand dollars, to be signed by tbo
Mayor and countersigned by the Clerk of sa;I
Common Council of Westminster, not eycooS p
ing in the whole the sum of twenty. five H.
sand dollars, bearing interest not exceed;nn
six per centum per annum, payable SEM
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 lac,
than the par value thereof, and the same shall
be exempt from county and municipal taxo.
ton.
SECTION 2. And be it enacted, That tbo
years from the date thereof, and redeemabis
at any time after the expiration of ten wear.
from the date thereof, at the pleasure Of tho
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 his
purpose, shall be, by the said Mayor and
Common Council, used and applied exelu.
sively to the payment of the costs and OK.
penses of paving, grading, or macadamizing.
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 tbe
said Mayor and Common Council be. and
they are hereby, authorized and required in
each and every year to levy and collect a 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 nm.
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
to the redemption of said bonds when and
as soon as they shall become redeemabe, and
the said taxes are hereby inviolably pledged
to the payment of the interest and principal
of said bonds.
SECTION s. 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 a ballot
t'For Paving or Matchmaking Streets and
Construction of Sewers or ballot Against
Paving or Matchmaking Streets and Con-
struction 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 TH0M,
Speaker of the House of Delegates
HENRY LLOYD,
President of the Senate.
Approved Sth April, 1884.
~S ROBT. NJ. McLANE,
knS1 Governor.
Maryland, Set:
/, SPENCER C. JONES, Clerk of the
Court of Appeals of Maryland do hereby Ger,
tify that the foregoing is full and true copy
of the Act of the General Assembly of Mary.
land, of which it purports to be copy, as
taken from the original law, deposited in and
belonging to the office of the Clerk of the
Court of Appeals aforesaid.
In testimony whereof, have hereunto
NN set my hand as Clerk, and affixed
@sGSD the Seal of the said Court of Appeals,
this 18th day of April, A. d. 1884.
SPENCER C. JONES,
Clerk of the Court of Appeals of Maryland.
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