When and where payable

Principal

Redemption

Notice of redemption

Form of bond

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nually on the first days of February and August of each year, at such bank or trust company in Kent County, Delaware, as said Town Council shall designate. The principal of said bonds shall be made payable at the expiration of thirty-five years from the date of the issue thereof, at the bank or trust company designated as aforesaid, the said The Town of Clayton reserving the power and authority of redeeming said bonds or any of them at the expiration of two years from the date of issuing of said bonds, or at any time thereafter, at par with interest to the date of redemption, provided that if the said The Town of Clayton elect to redeem said bonds, or any of them, at the expiration of two years from the date of issue of said bonds, or at any time thereafter, such election or elections shall be effected on the first day of February or the first day of August in the year of such election, and in pursuance of a notice to that effect published by the said The Town of Clayton in at least three issues of two newspapers, one o fwhich shall be published in the City of Wilmington, Delaware, and the other published in Kent County, Delaware. In calling said bonds for redemption and payment, they shall be called consecutively, commencing with the lowest number. The interest on all said bonds so called shall cease from the date of the redemption thereof, and said bonds when paid shall be cancelled. If at any time after the issue of said bonds and before they are payable or called in, any holder or holders of any such bond or bonds shall offer the same for redemption the said The Town of Clayton, if it deem it expedient, may redeem or pay the bond or bonds so offered, and cancel the same, the interest thereon ceasing from the date of such redemption.

Section 3. That the Town Council of the said The Town of Clayton shall prescribe the form of said bonds, determining the date of issue of the same, and shall ef

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fect the preparation and printing thereof. Said bonds shall be signed by the President and the Treasurer of Signatures the Town Council of the said The Town of Clayton, and sealed with the corporate seal of said The Town of Clayton. Said bonds shall be exempt from all State, County and Municipal taxation.

Town Council

for sale delivery of bonds

tole and

Section 4. That the Town Council of the said The to negotiate Town of Clayton shall negotiate the sale and delivery of said bonds, and shall apply and use all the money, the proceeds of the sale of said bonds for the purpose of carrying into effect the provisions of this Act.

collect annual

accrued

Section 5. That the said The Town of Clayton is To assess and hereby authorized and required to assess and collect an-ly taxes to pay nually, in the same manner as now provided by law for interest assessing and collecting other taxes for municipal purposes, an amount of tax sufficient to pay all the interest accruing on said bonds.

equipment and

water plant &c

Section 6. That the said The Town of Clayton is Construction, hereby authorized and empowered to do all things nec-operation of essary for the location, erection, construction, equipment and operation of said water plant, water supply or water works, and sewer system, for furnishing the said town with an ample supply of water and providing a sewer system for the same, as aforesaid, and to provide for the care and maintenance of the same, and to purchase engines, boilers, pipes, and all such instruments, machines, appliances and supplies as may be necessary for the purpose of establishing said water plant, water supply or water works, and sewer system, in said town, and for furnishing the citizens and inhabitants thereof with a Powers granted supply of water and sewerage for private use, and to effect the same the said The Town of Clayton shall have power to lay pipes and conduits under or along any of the streets, lanes or highways of said town, or any road

the town of

Clayton incistruction of

dent to con

plant

public mains

&c

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adjacent thereto, and also to contract and agree with the owner or owners for the occupation or purchase of any land or lands which may be necessary for the purpose of carrying into effect the provisions of this Act. The Town Council of the said The Town of Clayton shall Supervision of have the supervision and control of all public mains, pipes, sewers and drains within the corporate limits of the said The Town of Clayton, and may alter, repair or remove the same, and may cause new mains and sewers to be made and opened. The said Town Council may cause such mains, pipes, sewers and drains to be laid in any of the said streets, lanes or highways of the said town in such manner and of such material as they, the said Town Council, may deem proper. The said Town Council shall make rules regulating the tapping of pubabutting land lic sewers by the owners of abutting lands and shall provide for the granting of permits for the same and for the payment of such tapping fees as the said Town Council shall deem proper, and they shall prescribe the material of all private drains or sewers which shall hereafter enter into any public sewer, and shall direct the manner in which they shall be laid.

Tapping of

sewers by

owners

To employ assistance

To pass ordi

nances regula

and distribu

&c

Section 7. That the said The Town of Clayton is authorized to engage the services of a practical engineer and such agent and servants as the Town Council of the said The Town of Clayton may deem necessary for the work herein devolved upon said town or said Town Council.

Section 8.

That the Town Council of the said The ting operation Town of Clayton are hereby authorized and empowered tion of water to pass such ordinances as they may deem necessary for the operation, management and control of said water plant, water supply or water works, and sewer system, the distribution of said water through the streets, lanes and highways of the said The Town of Clayton, the reg

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ulation of its use in case of fire, and shall grant to all persons and corporations in said town whomsoever the privilege of using the said water in such manner, and on such terms and conditions as to them, the said Town Council, may seem just and proper.

To hold a spe

before issuing

Not more than

Section 9. That the said The Town of Clayton shall cial election not, at any time, have authority or power to issue any bonds of said bonds until a special election has been called by the Town Council of the said The Town of Clayton, and held by the officers provided for in this Act, and a majority of the legal votes cast at such election has been ascertained to be "For issuing Bonds for a Municipal Water and Sewer System." The said Town Council is hereby authorized to call and provide for such special election whenever it shall deem it expedient to do so, provided that such special election shall not be held within thirty days after the approval of this Act by the Governor. If the issuing of said bonds should not be approved by a majoirty of the said votes cast at said special election, the said Town Council, are authorized and directed to call a special election or elections at any time thereafter, one election in like manner and for the same purpose, provided that not more than one such election may be held in any one year, and every such election shall be at least six months apart. Such special election or elections shall be held by the Alderman, and two Councilmen, of said The Town holding the of Clayton, who shall be selected and appointed for that purpose by said Town Council. The said Alderman shall be the presiding officer at any such special election. If for any cause said Alderman shall not perform the duties of presiding officer at any such special election, the said Town Council shall select and appoint some other male qualified voter of the said The Town of Clayton to be the presiding officer at such special election. The voting at such special election or elections shall be by ballot. Except as otherwise provided by this Act,

per year

Method of

election

Notice of election

to vote

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such special election or elections shall be held according to the laws governing the annual town elections of the said The Town of Clayton. Due notice of the time and place of such special election shall be given by said Town Council by advertisements posted in at least ten public places in said town of Clayton, at least ten days prior to any such special election. Every citizen of the said The Town of Clayton, both male and female, of the age of Those entitled twenty-one years or over who shall have been a resident of said town for four months or longer next preceding such special election and who shall owe no town tax to the said The Town of Clayton other than the tax assessed Qualifications against him or her by the said The Town of Clayton for the year in which such special election shall be held, on personally appearing before the election officers provided for in this Act, shall be entitled to one vote for every one hundred dollars of assessment for town tax which shall be assessed against him or her by the said The Town of Clayton for the year in which such special election shall be held. No fraction of one hundred dollars of assessment shall be considered.

Penalty for illegal voting

When challenged for non

payment of taxes

Section 10. Any person who shall wilfully vote or attempt to vote illegally at such special election, or any person acting as an election officer at such special election, who shall wilfully receive or consent to receiving an illegal vote, or who shall wilfully refuse or consent in refusing to receive a legal vote, or who shall in any way act in a fraudulent or illegal manner at such special election, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof, shall be fined or imprisoned, or both, in the discretion of the Court. Should a voter be challenged on the ground of non-payment of tax, the presiding officer of the election or person receiving the votes shall cause the person so challenged to swear that he or she has paid all the town tax assessed against him