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<br />, <br /> <br />i <br /> <br />~.I <br />I <br />. <br />. <br /> <br />. / <br />/ <br />,- <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />It <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />, <br />I <br /> <br />elec~ed, as aforesaid, to take such oaths or make such affir- <br />maticns as the board may prescribe, for the faithful perfor- <br />mance of the duties of their respective offices, before en- <br />tering upon the discharge of the same, to establish support <br />and regulate common-schools~ and to borrow money on the credit <br />of the corporation: Provided, That no sum of money shall be <br />borrc~ed at a greater interest than twenty percent per annum, <br />nor s~all any sum or sums be borrowed as aforesaid, until af- <br />ter the subject shall have been submitted to the legal voters <br />of the corporation, for which purpose a specified election <br />shall be called by the police judge, after giving ten days' <br />notic~ thereof, and if a majority of the legal voters of said <br />corpo=ation shall be in favor of any such loan, the same may <br />be nesotiated, and not otherwise: Provided, further, That <br />the annual interest on the loan effected by the _corporation <br />shall not exceed one half the revenue annually derived from <br />the tax levied by said corporation upon the real estate within <br />the l~~its of said corporation. <br /> <br />S~ction 3. To appropriate money, and to provide for <br />the pa"ment of the debts and expenses of said corporation. <br /> <br />Section 4. To make regulations to prevent the introduc- <br />tion 0: contagious diseases within the limits of said corpora- <br />tion, ~o make quarantine laws for that purpose, and to enforce <br />the saIT!e within five miles of the limits of Georgetown. <br /> <br />S2=tion 5. To establish hospitals, and make regulations <br />for the government of the same. <br /> <br />Se=tion 6. To make regulations to secure the general <br />health of the inhabitants: to declare what shall be a nui- <br />sance, and prevent and remove the same. <br /> <br />Se~tion 7. To provide the corporation with water, to <br />erect hjdrants and pumps, build cisterns and dig wells in the <br />street for the supply of engines and buckets. <br /> <br />Section 8. To open, alter, abolish, widen, extend, estab- <br />liSh, g:ade, pave, or otherwise improve and keep in repair <br />streets, avenues, lanes and alleys, sidewalks, drains and <br />sewers. <br /> <br />Sec:ion 9. To establish, erect, and keep in repair, <br />bridges:' <br /> <br />Section 10. To divide the corporation into wards, alter <br />the boundaries thereof, and make additional wards, as the <br />occasion may require. <br /> <br />C-6 <br />