The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1910-04-28
CHAPTER NO Aql

AN ACT providing for the issuing and
sale of Bonds by the Mayor and Town
! Council of Kitzmillersville for con-
structing, erecting and maintaining
water works and sewerage in said
town of charlottesville condemn such
land as may be necessary for the build
ing 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, construction
and maintaining water works capable 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, erect
ing, constructing and maintaining a
sewerage system in said town for drain
age and sewerage purposes, the Mayor
and Town Council of charlottesville be
and they are hereby authorized and en-
powered and directed to issue bonds in
the name of the Mayor and Town Coun-
Gil OF kltZmillerSvllle to an amount not
exceeding $50, 900 or so much thereof as
may be necessary for the purpose afore-
said. The said bonds shall be for sums
not less than $500 each nor more than
$500 each, to be signed by the Mayor
and President of the Town Council, and
cOuntersigned by the Clerk of the said
Town Council, with the corporate seal
of said town thereto to be affixed, bear
ing 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 serially. Bond
! No. l shall be due ana payable two years
from date of issue, and thereafter each
bond shall mature and be payable each
consecutive year from the maturity Of
Bond No. in the order of their consecu-
tive numbers; provided, however, the
Mayor and Town Council Of Kitzmilers-
vile are hereby given the option to re-
deem any or all bonds outstanding TWEEN
tv years from date of issue; that all of
said bonds issued as aforesaid shall be
due and payable within forty-one years
from the date of their issue, and shall
| be forever exempt from all county and
municipal taxation for any purpose, and
shall have printed on them a reference
to the Act of Assembly authorizing the
issue thereof.
SEC. ?. And be it enacted, That the
Mayor and Town Council of Kitzmillers-
vile are hereby authorized and empow-
cred to construct and erect water works
and sewerage for said town, and to con-
tract for the purchase in fee simple or
| lease for 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
term of years any land, real estate,
springs, brooks, water courses or
! streams which they may deem eXpedi-
ent and necessary for the purpose Of
furnishing said town with water and
maintaining said sewerage, and they
are hereby invested with all the rights
and powers necessary for the induction
of water in the said town, and the
maintenance Of said sewerage system.
If for any cause the said Mayor and
! Town Council OF charlottesville shall
| be unable to agree with any owner Of
real or leasehold property, springs,
| brooks, water streams or water courses
or any other material which partakes
of or is a 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 incapacity to contract
or absent out Of the county or unknown.
the said Mayor and Town Council Of
| kitZmillersville is hereby clothed with
the power Of condemnation under the
right Of eminent domain as provided in
Section PSI of Article % of the Code Of
| Public General Laws of Maryland as
fully as if said Section had been herein
| incorporated, and their manner of pro-
| IT,
Of this Act shall in all particulars be the
same as if provided by said Section PSI
of Article %. The said Mayor and Town
Council of Kitzmillersvile shall have full
power to fix schedules of rates for fur
nishng water and sewerage to private
residences and other buildings and the
| said Mayor and Town Council as afOre-
! said 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 in
terest on the bonds and a sinking fund
to niece the bonds at maturity.
SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the
the title to the said water works and
sewerage and all land, estate and
water courses, water ways, cOnduits
pipes, machinery and other parts there
to shall, when completed or acquired
vest in the Mayor and Town Council of
charlottesville. And every person who
shall knowingly or willfully p0llute any
spring stream. brooks, water courses,
reservoir or standpipe in connection
with the said water works so built and
or constructed, rby throwing in any i'm
pure 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 source of supply or the reservoir or
stand pipe or water sheds for said water
works, so as to pollute the same, shall
upon conviction of such offense be liable
to a fine of not less than fifty dollars nor
more than five hundred dollars for each
| offense, to be recovered by the Mayor
and Town Council of Kitzmillersvile
before a Justice of the Peace as other
/ fines are recovered or to imprisonment
in the County Jail or in the House Of
! Correction Tor term of not less than
six months or more than two years, or
both fine and Imprisonment in the dis
erection of the Justice of the Peace, one
! half of such fine to 90 to the infOrr1pr