The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1931-05-28
PUBLIC LOCAL LAWS
Providing For the Issuing and
Sale of Bonds by the Mayor
and Council of Grantsville.
CHAPTER NO. 282.

Council of Grantsville for con-
structing, erecting and maintaining
water works in said town of Grants
vile, condemn such land as may be
necessary for the building of said
works, and to levy taxes on the as
= sessable property of said town to
redeem said bonds and to pay the
interest thereon.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the
General Assembly of Maryland, That
for the purpose of establishing, con-
structing and maintaining water
works capable of furnishing the resi-
dents of said town with a good and
sufficient supply of water for ordi-
nary purposes and for fire protection,
the Mayor and Council of Grantsville
be and they are hereby authorized
and empowered and directed to issue
bonds in the name of the Mayor and
Council of Grantsville to an amount
not exceeding $25,000.00, or so much
thereof as may be necessary for the
purposes aforesaid. The said bonds
shall be for sums not less than $4,000
each, nor more than 100000 each, to
be signed by the Mayor and President
of the Council and countersigned by
the clerk of the said Mayor and Coun-
Gil with the corporate seal of said
town thereto affixed, bearing interest
at not more than five per centum per
annum, payable semi-annually in each
and every year and dated on the
first day of their issue. The said
bonds shall be numbered serially.
Bond No. shall be due and payable
three years from date of issue, and
thereafter each bond shall mature and
be payable each consecutive year from
the maturity of Bond No. 1 in the
order of their consecutive numbers;
provided, however, the Mayor and
Council of Grantsville are hereby
given the option to redeem any or all
bonds outstanding ten years from
date of issue; that all of said bonds
issued as aforesaid shall be due and
payable within twenty-seven years
from the date of their issue, and shall
be forever exempt from all county
and municipal taxation for any pur-
pose, and shall have printed on them
reference to the Act of Assembly
authorizing the issue thereof.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted,
That the Mayor and Council of
Grantsville are hereby authorized and
empowered to construct and erect wa
ter works and sewerage from said
town, and to contract 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 expedient and
necessary for the purpose of furn-
ishing said town with water, and they
are hereby invested with all the rights
and powers necessary for the induc-
ton of water into said town. If for
any cause the said Mayor and Coun-
Gil 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 may find necessary for the
conduct of said water system in its
entirety 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 May
or and Council of Grantsville is here
by clothed with the power of condem-
nation under the right of eminent do
main as provided in the Public Gen.
eral Laws of Maryland as fully as if
the provisions of said laws had been
herein Incorporated. The said Mayor
and Council of Grantsville shall have
full power to fix schedules of rates
for furnishing water and sewerage to
private residences and other buildings,
and the said Mayor and Council shall
have power to collect the same as
other taxes are collected and the in
come thereof shall be applied, first,
for expenses and maintenance and
afterwards for the payment of the
interest on the bonds and a sinking
fund to meet the bonds at maturity.
Sec. 8. And be it further enacted,
That the title to said water works
and all land, estates and water cours-
es, waterways, conduits, pipes, ma
chinery and all other parts thereto
shall, when completed or acquired,
vest in the Mayor and Council of
Grantsville; and every person who
shall knowingly or wilfully pollute
any spring, streams, brooks, water
course, reservoir or standpipe in con-
nection with the said water works so
built or constructed by throwing 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 nuis-
ance in or near the sources of supply
of the reservoir or standpipe 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
twenty-five dollars, nor more than
three hundred dollars for each offense,
to be recovered by the Mayor and
Council of Grantsville before Justice
of the peace as other fines are recov-
cred, or to Imprisonment in the coun-
ty Jail or House of Correction for a
term of not less than six months nor
more than eighteen months, or both
fine and imprisonment, in the discre-
ton of the justice of the peace, one
half of such fine to go to the informer
and the balance to the Mayor and
Council of Grantsville for the pur-
poses of this act.
Sec. a. And be it further enacted,
That for the purpose of redeeming
said bonds at their maturity and for