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S 90 A. Approved

June 12, 1923.

City of Woonsocket authorized to hire $1,000,000 to meet its outstanding indebtedness.

Bonds or notes, how issued, etc.

Payment of interest and principal.

order that the same shall be repaired at the expense of said town. Said town council shall cause any such deed accepted by it to be transmitted to said town clerk who shall record the same.

SEC. 8. This act shall take effect upon its passage.

CHAPTER 539.

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AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF WOONSOCKET TO
ISSUE FUNDING BONDS TO THE AMOUNT OF ONE
MILLION DOLLARS.

It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows:

SECTION 1. The city of Woonsocket is hereby authorized and empowered, from time to time, to hire not exceeding in the aggregate one million dollars in addition to all amounts heretofore authorized, and issue its notes and bonds therefor, or either of them, and to renew any such notes from time to time as the same become due, for the purpose of raising funds to meet its indebtedness now outstanding.

SEC. 2. The city council of said city shall cause any bonds or notes issued by authority hereof to be issued for such time or times, in such amounts, and under such terms and conditions as shall be fixed by said city council. Such loans shall be payable by such annual payments, beginning not more than one year after the respective dates thereof, as will extinguish each loan in not more than ten years from its date, and the amount of such annual payment in any year shall not be less than the amount of the principal payable in any subsequent year. Each authorized issue shall constitute a separate loan. The city shall annually appropriate until said bonds are paid in full a sum sufficient to pay the interest and principal of the bonds maturing each year. Any

premiums arising from the sale of said bonds, less the cost of preparing, issuing and marketing them, shall be applied to the first bond or bonds to mature. All obligations of said city which may be created under authority of this act shall be excepted from the operation of section 22 of chapter 47 of the general laws.

SEC. 3. This act shall take effect upon its passage, and all acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed.

CHAPTER 540.

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AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE PLEASANT VIEW BEACH H 549. Approved FIRE DISTRICT TO HIRE NOT EXCEEDING TWENTY- May 1, 1923. FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS FOR THE PURPOSE OF CONSTRUCTING SIDEWALKS.

It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows:

SECTION 1. The Pleasant View Beach Fire District is hereby authorized and empowered from time to time to hire a sum not exceeding twenty-five thousand dollars, and to issue its notes or bonds, or either, therefor, and to renew any such notes from time to time as they shall become due and payable.

All moneys received by said fire district by authority hereof shall be exclusively used and expended for the construction of sidewalks within said fire district.

Pleasant View
District

Beach Fire

authorized to hire $25,000

for sidewalk

construction,

election of.

SEC. 2. The qualified electors of said corporation committee, shall at any special meeting elect an improvement committee consisting of five members to serve until the next annual meeting, and until others be chosen in their stead.

SEC. 3. It shall be the duty of said improvement committee:

Duties of.

Improvement committee may order the laying of sidewalks.

Notice.

Hearing.

Sidewalk, how paid for.

(a) To construct, improve, alter and repair the sidewalks of said district, and to select the type of material to be used in said sidewalks; to determine the width and elevation thereof and to determine the time when such construction, improvement, alteration and repair shall be undertaken in accordance with the requirements and needs of the inhabitants of said fire district, and to inspect or cause to be inspected from time to time the sidewalks kept and maintained by said fire district for the purpose of maintaining and keeping the same in good repair and safe for travel.

(b) To make a report to the annual meeting each year showing the work performed during the year preceding, the cost of the same, and containing such recommendation as the improvement committee may deem advisable in regard to the extension and improvement of the sidewalks in said fire district.

SEC. 4. Whenever the said improvement committee shall determine by its vote that a sidewalk shall be made and laid in and upon any street or highway in said fire district, it may order the same to be made and laid upon five days' notice to the abutting land owner, or if any of the land owners reside without the state, upon three weeks' notice by registered letter to the last known place of residence. At the time and place named in said notice the said improvement committee shall proceed to hear all such parties and to make and pass such order in reference to the making and laying of such sidewalk as they may think proper.

SEC. 5. Whenever any sidewalk in and upon any street or highway shall be ordered made and laid as hereinbefore provided, the owners of the land abutting on such sidewalks shall pay one-half of the cost thereof, to be set against their respective lands as

hereinafter specified, the balance of the cost to be taken from the regular appropriation for sidewalks as hereinafter provided or any special appropriation for said purposes.

SEC. 6. Such costs shall be ascertained and approved by the improvement committee for said fire district, and thereafter the said improvement committee shall demand one-half of said costs from such abutting land owner, and if such land owner shall neglect and refuse to pay the same, the said improvement committee shall certify the costs so ascertained and approved to the assessors of taxes for said fire district, and the said assessors shall include the owners' portion of the cost of such making and laying said sidewalk, which sum shall be included in the next assessment of taxes for such fire district against such land or the owner thereof.

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aggrieved may appeal,

SEC. 7. Whenever any abutting land owner shall Person deem himself aggrieved by the ascertainment of how. costs for the making and laying of any sidewalk as herein before provided, he may appeal therefrom according to provisions of law, with reference to appeals from town councils.

appeal.

SEC. 8. If the person appealing from any ascer- Failure of tainment of costs for the making and laying of any sidewalk shall fail to have such amount reduced on appeal he shall be adjudged to pay the costs of suit and the collector of taxes shall collect from him only so much of said tax as shall have been found on appeal to be due from said appellant.

SEC. 9. If heretofore a sidewalk shall have been made and laid in and upon any street or highway in said fire district by an abutting land owner, the improvement committee may, if such sidewalk shall be approved by said improvement committee, reimburse such abutting land owner for one-half the cost of the

Abutting land

owner may be

reimbursed,

when.

Bonds or notes,
how issued,
etc.

Payment of interest and principal.

Notes or bonds, how signed,

etc.

making and laying of such sidewalk, out of funds appropriated for sidewalks: Provided, however, that said improvement committee shall not pay to said abutting property owner a sum which shall be in excess of one-half of the then prevailing contract price for the making and laying of such sidewalk.

SEC. 10. The treasurer of said fire district shall cause any bonds or notes issued by authority hereof to be issued for such times, and under such terms and conditions as shall be authorized by the fire district, except that upon notes maturing not more than one year from their date, the time and the discount or interest rate may be fixed by the treasurer of the fire district. The fire district shall annually appropriate the sum necessary to pay the interest on such bonds or notes so issued, and a further sum sufficient for the redemption or payment of one-tenth of the principal of the said bonds or notes hereby authorized when and as the same may become due and payable.

SEC. 11. The notes or bonds, or either, hereby authorized shall be signed by the treasurer of the fire district and countersigned by the clerk of the fire district.

SEC. 12. This act shall take effect upon its passage, and all acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed.

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