The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1908-05-14
CHAPTER ST..


AN ACT providing for the issuing and
sale of bond by the Mayor and Town
Council of Oakland for construct
ing, erecting and maintaining water
works and sewerage in said town Of
Oakland: condemn such land as may
be necessary for the building Of
said works, and to levy taxes on the
assessable property Of said town to
redeem said bonds and to pay the
interest thereon.
SECTION /. Be it enacted by the Gen
eral Assembly of Maryland, That for
/ the purpose of establishing, construct
ing and maintaining water works capa-
bic Of furnishing the residents of said
town with a good and sufficient supply
OF water for ordinary purposes and for
fire protection. and for establishing.
erection, constructing and maintaining
d sewerage system in said town for
| drainage and sewerage purposes the
Mayor and Town Council of Oakland be
and they are hereby authorized and en-
powered and direction to issue bonds in
| the name Of the Mayor and Town Coun-
eli OF Oakland to an amount not exceed
ing 500, 10000, or so much thereof as
may be necessary for the purpose afore-
said. The said bonds shall be for sums
not less than 81, 900 each. not more
than $1,000. 90 each, to be signed by the
Mayor and President of the Town Coun-
ell and countersigned by the Clerk of
Town Council with the corporate seal Of
SAID town thereto be affixed, bearing
interest at not more than five per
centum per annum, payable semi an
nualIy IN each and every year and dated
on the first day of their issue: the said
| bonds shall be numbered serially. Bond
No. l shall be due and payable two
years from date of issue, and there
after each bond shall mature and be
payable each consecutive year from the
maturity Of bond No. l in the order of
their consecutive numbers: provided.
however, the Mayor and Town Council
Of Oakland are hereby given the option
to redeem any or all bonds outstanding
twenty-five years from date of issue;
that all of said bonds issued as afore-
said shall be due and payable within 81
years from the date of their issue. and
shall forever be exempt from all county
and municipal taxation tor any purpose,
and shall have printed on them refer
ence to the Act Of Assembly authoriz-
ing the issue thereof
SEC. ?. And be it enacted. That the
Mayor and Town Council of Oakland
are hereby authorized and empowered
to construct and erect water works and
sewerage for said town and to contract
for the purpose in fee simple or lease
tor a term of years, renewable at their
pleasure, any land, real estate, springs.
brooks, water courses, streams, and to
use and occupy forever or for d term of
years any land, real estate, springs,
brooks, water courses or streams which
they may deem eXpedient and necessary
for the purposes Of furnishing said town
with water and maintaining said sewer
age. and they are hereby invested with
all the rights and powers necessary for
the induction Of water into the said
town, and the maintenance of said sew
erage system; if for any cause the said
Mayor and Town Council of Oakland
shall be unable to agree with any owner
of real or leasehold property, springs,
brooks, water streams, or Watewcour-
seS. or any OSher material which par
takes Of or is necessary part of realty
or for any right of way which they may
find necessary for the conduct of said
water and sewerage in its entry into or
in said town or if such owner is under
any disability or incapacity to contract
or absent out of the county or unknown
the said Mayor AID Town Council of
Oakland is hereby clothed with the pow
er of condemnation under the right of
eminent domain as provided in Section
25l of Article % of the Code of Public
General Laws of Maryland as fully as
if said section had been herein incor-
porated; and their manner of procedure
of condemnation for the purpose of this
Act shall in all particulars be the same
as IS provided by said Section PSI of
said Art % The said Mayor and Town
Council of Oakland shall have full
| power to fix schedules of rates for fur
nlshing water and sewerage to private
residences and other buildings, and the
said Mayor and Town Council shall have
power to collect the same as other taxes
are collected and the income thereof
! shall be applied, first for expenses and
maintenance, and afterwards for the
! payment of the interest on the bouds
/ and a sinking fund to meet the bonds at
maturity.
SEC. 3 And be it enacted, That the
/ title to said water works and sewerage,
and all lands, estates and water cour-
d "dICl ways, COIuullS, pipes, Ild-
| chinery and all other parts thereto shall
when completed or acquired, vest in the
| Mayor and Town Council of Oakland
and every person who shall knowingly
or willfully pollute any spring, stream,
/ brook. water course, reservoir or stand
/ pipe in connection with the said water
works so built or constructed by throw
ing any impure or deleterious substance
or thing into the same, or by swimming,
bathing or washing themselves, or by
! washing clothes or any other thing
therein, or by committing any nuisance
, in or near the sources of supply or the
reservoir or standppe for said water
works so as to pollute the same, shall,
upon conviction of such offense, be
liable to fine of not less than twenty
I five dollars nor more than three hundred
dollars for each offence, to be recover