Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1898-03-26

By order of the Mayor and Council.
ROBERT p. MASON,
March II Clerk.
AT the same time and place the ques-
ton of Issuing Bonds in the sum of Ten
Thousand Dollars for the Purpose of Com
pleting the Water Works of said Town will
be submitted to the said Qualified Voters in
accordance with the provisions of the append
ed Act of the General Assembly:
CHAPTER IL.
January Session, 1898.
AN ACT supplemental to an Act passed by
the January session. eighteen hundred and
ninety, of the General Assembly of Mary
land, Chapter l3O entitled An Act to Pro-
vide for the Purchase and Construction of
Water Works for the Town of Frostburg,
in Allegany county, and to Authorize the
Mayor and Councilmen of said Town to
issue Bonds to Pay the Cost Thereof" en-
powering the Mayor and Councimen of
said Town to issue additional bonds to COM
plcte said Water Works
VIZ HEREAS, BY Chapter 100, of the Acts
w of Assembly of the year eighteen
hundred and ninety, the Mayor and Council
men of FrOStburg were authorized to issue
the bonds of said Town to an amount not ex-
ceeding lorty thousand dollars (SlO00000)
town with water by the purchase or CON
struction of Water Works; and
WHEREAS, Said Water Works were con-
Structed and are now in operation, but the
fund provided by the sale of said bonds in
the construction of the same was eXhausted
and
WHEREAS. BY Chapter 124. of the Acts of
the General Assembly, passed at the January
Session, 1892 said Mayor and Councilmen
were authorized to issue additional bonds to
the amount of fifteen thousand dollars
Sl5,O0OOO) for the purpose of completing and
equipping said Water Works. and die. issue
the same: and
WHEREAS, 1t is estimated that it will still
require large sum to properly equip said
Works so as to afford all the inhabitants of
said town with an adequate and constant
supply Of water; therefore
SECTION |. BE It endcted By the General As
sembly Of Nnylamd, That the Mayor and
Councilmen of Frostburg are hereby author.
lied and empowered to issue additional
coupon bonds Of SAID town to an amount not
exceeding ten thousand dollars (SlO,00000D
which said bonds shall be signed by the
Mayor and Clerk ofsaid town, and sealed with
its Corporate Seal, and shall be denomnated
"Frostburg Water Bonds of 1898, and shall
draw interest not exceeding four percentum
per- dltHUjn, payable semi-annually. to be
issued IN denominations not exceeding five
hundred dollars (S50O00,) to be payable not
exceeding thirty years from date and redeem
able at the pleasure of said town any time
after five years from their date, and said town
shall have the same powers of leVying a
special tax to pay said interest and to pro-
vide sinking fund for the redemption of
said bonds as are given by said Act of 1890 in
relation to the interest and principal of the
bonds therein named.
SECTION 3, and be it enacted, That the May
or and Councilmen Of Frostburg at the next
regular election of officers of said Town after
the passage of this Act shall submit to the
qualified voters of said Town the question
whether or not said bonds shall be issued as
hereinbetore provided. and at SAID election
all voters desiring to vote on said question
shall cast ballot, upon which, in addition
to the names OF the candidates voted for,
shall be written or printed the words, For
the Issue of Bonds, or Against the Issue of
Bonds, as the voter shall desire and if the
majority Of the votes cast at said election on
this question shall be in favor of said issue of
bonds, the Mayor and Councilmen shall
have power to issue said bonds, not exceeding
ten thousand dollars (SlO,000.O0) or any part
thereof, for the purpose of completing the
construction and equipment of said Water
Works, or to pay any debt SAID town may
have then already incurred in and about the
same; but if the majority of votes cast on
sand question shall be against the issue of
said bonds, then said bonds shall not be
issued, and in giving the usual notice Of the
time, place and object of said election it shall
be the duty of said Mayor and Councilmen
to give notice of the submission of SAID ques-
ton to the voters, and shall cause this Act to
be published in some newspaper printed in
said town of Frostburg ten days before said
election.
SECTION 3. And be it enactcd That this Act
shall take effect from the date of its passage.
Approved March IA, 1898.
LLOYD LOWNDES,
Governor.
j. WRIT RANDALL;
President of the Senate.
LOUIS SCHAEFER,
Speaker of the House of Delegates.
STATE OF MARYLAND, Sct:
|, ALLAN RUTHERFORD, Clerk of the Court
of Appeals of Maryland, do hereby certify,
That the foregoing is full and true copy of
the Act the General Assembly of Maryland,
of which it purports to be a copy, as taken
from the original law belonging to and'depOs-
tied in the office of the Clerk of the Court of
Appeals aforesaid.
In testimony whereof have hereunto set
my hand as Clerk and affixed the seal of the
said Court of Appeals this sixteenth day of
March, 4. d. 1898.
ALLAN RUTHERFORD
Clerk Court of Appeals Of Maryland.
BY order of the Mayor and Council.
ROBERT p. MASON
March 19-2t Clerk.