Chapter CXLV. *authorizing the Corporate Authorities of Georgetown to impose Additional Taxes, and for other Purposes.* March 2, 1855. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the mayor, recorder, aldermen, and common council, of George
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Chap. CXLV.— An Act *authorizing the Corporate Authorities of Georgetown to impose Additional Taxes, and for other Purposes.* March 2, 1855. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the mayor, recorder, aldermen, and common council, of Georgetown, be, and they are hereby, Tax authorized in Georgetown to secure subscription to the Metropolitan R. R.authorized and empowered to lay and collect a special annual tax of seventy-five cents, or so much thereof as may be necessary, upon every hundred dollar’s of property by law now taxable within the corporate limits of said town, and all money vested or held in any banking, insurance, brokerage, or exchange company or institution, upon all State or 634 THIRTY-THIRD CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Ch. 146, 147. 1855.corporation stocks, and money loaned at interest on bond, mortgage, or other evidence of indebtedness, in order to meet the engagements recently assumed by said town in subscribing to the stock of the Metropolitan Railroad Company; and to pledge the same to secure the said engagements, in such a manner that no part of the same shall in any event be applied to any other object; and the like remedy shall be used for the recovery thereof as is now used for the recovery of other public taxes in said town.
Water and gas. Tax may be laid therefor. Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That the said corporation of Georgetown shall have full power and authority to introduce into said town a supply of water for the use of the inhabitants thereof; and to cause the streets, lanes, and alleys, or any of them, or any portion of any of them, to be lighted by gas or otherwise; and to provide for the expense of any such works or improvements, either by a special tax or out of its corporate funds generally, or both, at its discretion.
Approved, March 2, 1855.