The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1888-05-05
DUBLIc LOCAL LAW.
CHAPTER 8o2.

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 IL enacted By 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 ii 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 3. And be 1t 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 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
them at any time, and shall not be sold or
disposed of at less than par value, and the
citizens of said Corporation shall have the
refusal of purchasing said bonds
SECTION 5. ARd be 1t 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 at
said election, the words ''For Rail Road
Subscription" or against 'Rail Road Sub
scription," and if majority of the ballots
cast shall contain the words, "For Rail Road
Subscription, then this Act shall become
operative and binding, but if a 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 of
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
he result thereof.
SECTION 6. And be al 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 cash
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.
ell 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 Z. And be 1t enacted also, That
any person or persons living within the said
corporation, who is not possessed of real es.
tate, shall pay a tax on his or their personal
property, at the same rate per centum as paid
on real estate, which tax shall be used by said
on said real estate; and the same assessors
appointed by the said Mayor and Common
Council to assess real estate shall also assess
the personal property, owned by persons not
possessed with real estate, within the said
corporation.
SECTION 8. And be it enacted, That all of
the above said taxes shall become due on the
first day of January of each year, and if not
paid when due interest will be charged until
paid.
SECTION 9. And be 1t enacted, That the
assessors appointed shall be empowered to
administer oath to property holders, both real
and personal, in the said corporation, whilst
in discharge of their duty.
SECTION 10. Ind be IL enacted, That the
Mayor and Common Council shall assess any
and all property, from time to time, which
may arise in the said corporation after the
said assessment has been made by said ap-
pointed assessors, which taxes shall be used
for the same purpose as those obtained from
the regular assessments,
SECTION IL. Ind be 1t enacted, That this
act shall take effect from the date of its pas,
sage.
Approved
ELIHU E. JACKSON,
Governor,
GEORGE NJ. UPSHUR,
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