The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1914-04-17
M0nday, Abysz 20, 10l4,
i avs OF Maryland
JANUARY SESSION, .sl4
CHAPTER 11a.


AN ACT to amend Article of the Code
Of Public Local Laws Of the State Of Mary
lands title ssCecil County" subtitle "Rieing
Sum- by adding four additional Sections
thereto, providing for bonding the Town Of
srcts Sa - psy lOr Mass v
and installation of an electric light plant, to
supply water and light for the inhabitants
Of said town, and for other municipal i'm
proyements. and to submit the question of
issuing said bonds to the vote of the legally
qualified voters and taxpayers of said town.
SECTION l. Be Il enacted By ne General As
sept6ty Of Maryland, That Article s, title "Cecil
County" sub title Rising Sum- be and the
same Is hereby amended BY adding three ad-
ditionai Sections thereto to come In and after
Section 289 b, as amended by the Act of 1912,
Chapter 455, OF the General Assembly OF Mary
land, providing for lighting the streets, etc..
and supplying water for the use of the Town
OF Rising Sun and other municipal improve
ments, said Sections thereto to be numbered
2S9-C, 289-D and 2S9-E. providing for the bond
ing of said town.
2S9-C, The Commissioners of Rising Sum
are hereby authorized and empowered to issue
on the credit of said town of Rising Sun, bonds
TO an amount not exceeding seventeen th0us-
and dollars to pay for the water system and
water works already constructed, and side
walks already laid and for apparatus for fire
protection already furnished, and also to issue
on the credit of said town other bonds to an
amount not exceeding eight thousand dollars,
or so much thereof as may be necessary, for
the purpose of constructing and installing an
electric light plant, and Tor other improve
ments, for said town, If they shall deem ex-
pedtent and necessary so to do, said bonds to
be redeemable at period not exceeding
twenty years from the date at which they are
Issued at the discretion of the said 1.-THE Com
mssoners OF Rising Sun" ct q rate of interest
not exceeding i've per centlm per annum,
payable semi-Rnnually. and the faith and as
sessable property OF the said town are hereby
q an Of
the principal and interest of said bonds. Said
bonds shall be of denomination to be deter
mined by the Board of Commissioners, and
shall he signed by the President of the said
corporation and attested,
2S9.D. Said bonds to be free from income
and municipal taxes.
3s9-E If necessary in order to pay the in
terest on said bonds and to provide sinking
fund for the redemption of the principal
thereof. as the same shall from time to time
mature. the said Commissioners are hereby
authorized and empowered to levy an addi
uonal tax (beyOnd the limit fixed for the reg.
MAR town tax for said town. on the assessable
property OF said town, as may be necessary
thereto. -
289-F Before the said bonds shall be Issued
for any of the purposes aforesaid, the said
Commissioners of Rising Sum- shall first SUBJ
NIT said proposition to bond said town to the
vote of the legally qualified voters and tax
payers of said town, TO be held on some date
from the date of the passage of this Act, and
not later than six months from the passage
thereof; and If at said election majority OF
the votes cast at said election shall approve of
the issue of said bonds for the purposes afore.
said. then the said 1.-THE Commissioners OF
Rising Sum shall issue said bonds, in theway
and manner. and for the purposes hereinbefore
provided; and should majority f the said
qualified voters and Taxpayers decide at said
election against tie issuing of said bonds
then this Act is hereby repealed. And the
said 1.-THE Commissioners OF Rising SUM- are
hereby fully authorized to pass all necessary
ordinances and to make necessary arpn.If.
ments for the purpose Of hJiosag said election
and ascertaining the true result.
SEG2. And be IL enacted, That this Act shall
take effect from the date Of its passage
Approved March 20. 1914.
---, P. L. GoLDsBoRoUGH.
aRE1lEE s SEAL JAS. Moo. rn1rf governor
OF Speaker House of Delegate,
MARYLAND. JESSE D. PRICE,
>-------. -,---- President of the Senate.
State Of Maryland. City Of Annapolis, to wit:
l, Caleb o. Magruder, Clerk of the Court O
Appeals OF Maryland. do hereby certify that th
oregOing Is truly taken and copied from Chapte
10 of the Acts OF the General Assembly of Mary
and January Session 1914. now on file in sal
Court
In testimony whereof have hereunto set M
land as Clerk, and affixed the seal Of the sal
Court of Appeals of Maryland, this 18th day Q
April A. D., 1914.
Clerk OF Couit of Appeals of Maryland.