The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1908-04-30
CHAPTER 677

ing, erecting and maintaining water
works and sewerage in said town of
Oakland; condemn such land as NAV
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 l. Be it enacted bv the Cen
eral Assembly of Maryland, That for
the purpose of establishing, construct
ing and maintaining water works cana
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
a 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-
Gil of Oakland to an amount not exceed
ing 500, OO0,0 90, 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 81, 100000 each, to be signed bv the
Mayor and President of the Town Coun-
Gil 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-
nually IN each and every year and dated
on the first day of their issue; the said
bonds shall be numbered seriallv. Bond
No. | 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. 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 for any purpose,
and shall have printed on them a refer
ence to the Act of Assembly authoriz-
ing the issue thereof
SEC. p 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
for term of years, renewable at their
pleasure, any land, real estate, springs,
brooks, water courses, streams. and to
use and occupy forever or for a 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 water cour-
ses, or any other material which par
takes of or is necessary part of realty
or for any right of way which they NAV
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 ncapacity to contract
or absent out of the county or unknown
the said Mayor and Town Council of
Oakland is hereby clothed with the pow
err 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
arek collected and the income thereof
shall be applied, first, for expenses and
and afterwards for the
payment of the interest on the bouds
and sinking fund to meet the bonds at
SEC. 3 And be it enacted, That the
title to said water works and sewerage,
and all lands, estates and water cOur-
ses, waterways, conduits, pipes, ma
chlnery 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
clothes or any other thing
therein, or by committing any nuisance
IN or near the sources of supply or the
reservoir or Standpipe 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
five dollars nor more than three hundred
dollars for each offence, to be recover
ed by the Mayor and Town Council of
Oakland by Justice of the Peace as
other fines are recoverable, or to i'm
prisonment in the county Jail or House
of Correction for Germ of not less than
SIX months nor more than eighteen
or both fine and Imprisonment,
in the discretion of the Justice of the
Peace, one-half of such, fine to 90 to the
informer and the balance to the Mayor
and Town Council for the purposes of
this Act
SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That for
the purpose of redeeming said bonds at
their maturity and for securing the
prompt payment of the interest there