The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1888-04-21
DUBLIc LOCAL LAW.
CHAPTER sO2.

AN ACT, To empower and authorize the
Mayor and Common Council of Manchester,
Carroll County, Maryland, to Subscribe to
the Capital Stock of the Manchester Branch
Rail Road the sum of Fifteen Thousand
Dollars or less; said Rail Road Branch to
be built from Manchester to Maple Grove
Station, on the Baltimore and Hanover
Division of the Western Maryland Rail
Road.
SECTION /. Be it enacted 6y the General
Assembly of Maryland, That the Mayor and
Common Council of Manchester, Carroll
County, be and they are hereby authorized
and empowered to subscribe to the Capital
Stock of the Manchester Branch Rail Road
the sum of Fifteen Thousand Dollars.
SECTION 2. And be it enacted, That for
the purpose of appropriating the said fifteen
thousand dollars, the Mayor and Common
Council may issue bonds upon the real
property within the limits of said Municipal
Corporation to the amount of fifteen thousand
dollars or less, bearing interest not exceeding
six per centum per annum, payable semi
annually, which bonds shall not be subject to
taxation for State and County taxes, or
municipal.
SECTION 8. And be at enacted, That for
the purpose of paying the interest on said
bonds as it may become due, the Mayor and
Common Council shall levy by assessment on
all the real property within the limits of said
Municipal Corporation, such amount of taxes
as may be required to pay the interest on said
bonds, and also to constitute a sinking fund
for the redemption of said bonds.
SECTION 4. Ind be it enacted, That the
bonds which may be issued as aforesaid shall
be payable in not more than twenty years
from date, reserving the privilege of paying
disposed of at less than par value, and the
citizens of said Corporation shall have the
refusal of purchasing said bonds.
SECTION 5. Ind be ii enacted, That at any
municipal election to be held in Manchester
at such time and place as may be fixed by an
ordinance of the Mayor and Common Council
of Manchester, or at any especial election
that may be called by the Mayor and Com.
mon Council, there may be written or printed
on the ballots of the legal qualified voters al
said election, the words "For Rail Road
Subscription" or against Grail Road Sub
scription, and if majority of the ballots
Subscription" then this Act shall become
operative and binding but if majority Of
said ballots shall contain the words, Against
Rail Road Subscription" this Act shall be
void and of no effect, and the judges of said
election shall return to the Mayor and Com
mon Council of Manchester the number oil
votes cast for "Rail Road Subscription" and
against "Rail Road Subscription" respect
lively and the said Mayor and Common
Council shall by their proclamation announce
the result thereof.
SECTION 6. And be at enacted, That the
assessment on said real property within the
limits of said municipal corporation shall be
made by FIVE, not less than three, competent
citizens, who shall reside within the corpora
ton, and be possessed of real estate free from
all encumbrance; and the said real property
shall not be assessed higher than its casf
value; and the said assessors shall be appointed
by the Mayor and Common Council, and shall
qualify before Justice of the Peace before
entering upon said duty, and after said asses
sors shall have performed their duty, they
shall report to the Mayor and Common Coun
Gil of said corporation, when the Mayor shall
announce the amount of assessment to the
| citizens of Manchester, at a public meeting
to be called by the Mayor.
SECTION I. And be at enacted, also, Tha
any person or persons living within the said
corporation, who is not possessed of real es
tate, shall pay tax on his or their persona
property, at the same rate per centum as paiC
on real estate, which tax shall be used by sait
municipal corporation, same as that collected
on said real estate; and the same assessor
appointed by the said Mayor and Common
Council to assess real estate shall also asses
the personal property, owned by persons no
possessed with real estate, within the salt
corporation.
SECTION 8. And be IL enacted, That all o
the above said taxes shall become due on tn
first day of January of each year, and if no
paid when due interest will be charged unit
paid
SECTION 9. And be it enacted, That tn
assessors appointed shall be empowered Il
administer oath to property holders, both rea
and personal, in the said corporation, willis
in discharge of their duty.
| SECTION 10. And be 1t enacted, That tn
Mayor and Common Council shall assess an,
and all property, from time to time, whicl
may arise in the said corporation after tn
said assessment has been made by said APP
pointed assessors, which taxes shall be uset
for the same purpose as those obtained from
the regular assessments.
SECTION IL. And be ii enacted That thi
act shall take effect from the date of its pas
sage.
Approved
ELIHU f. JACKSON,
Governor.
GEORGE NJ. UPSHUR,
Speaker House of Delegates.
GEORGE PETER,
President of the Senate.
| hereby certify that the aforegoing is tru,
copy of an Act of the General Assembly o
Maryland, passed January session, 1888.
CARLTON SHAFER,
Chief Clerk of the House of Delegates.
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