LAWS RELATING TO AGRICULTURE. 



25 



15. For erecting or purchasing water-works and supplying water to 

 the township or corporation and the inhabitants thereof. 



1 6. For erecting or purchasing gas-works and electric light works, 

 and for supplying light to the township or corporation and the inhabitants 

 thereof. 



17. For providing grounds for cemeteries and for park purposes, 

 for inclosing and embellishing the same, and for erecting vaults. 



1 8. For constructing sewers, drains and ditches. 



19. For maintaining a free public library and reading-room. 



20. For constructing, erecting or providing any public work, build- 

 ing or improvements not hereinbefore mentioned, and for \vhich a tax 

 may constitutionally be levied. 



Nothing herein contained shall be construed as limiting or restricting 

 any power to issue bonds for any of the purposes named in this section 

 otherwise conferred by law ; but no bonds issued for any of the above 

 named purposes and in accordance with the provisions of this section, shall 

 bear a higher rate of interest than six per centum per. annum, payable 

 semi-annually, or be sold for less than their par value. 



SEC. 2836. [Tax shall be levied to pay bonds and interest.] For 

 the payment of bonds issued under the preceding section, the township 

 trustees or municipal council shall levy a tax in addition to the amount 

 otherwise authorized, every year during the period the bonds have to run, 

 sufficient in amount each year to pay the bonds falling clue within that 

 year, and the accruing interest. 



[Surplus water- works fund in Columbus applied on interest on 

 storage darn bonds, and for creation of sinking fund.] Provided, 

 however, that in cities of the first grade of the second class any surplus 

 of the water-works fund of such cities after paying the expense of con- 

 ducting, managing, repairing and extending the water-works of such 

 cities, shall first be applied to the payment of the interest accruing on 

 any bonds issued or which may hereafter be issued for the construction of 

 dams for storing water for the purpose of supplying water to any such 

 cities and the inhabitants thereof, and for the creation of a sinking fund 

 for the payment of the principal of such bonds, before applying the pro- 

 ceeds of any tax levy made in pursuance of this provision, and that the 

 councils of any such cities be authorized to levy a tax for the exclusive 

 purpose of paying the excess of such bonds and interest, and creating 

 such sinking fund after the application of such surplus as herein provided. 



SEC. 2837. [Question to be submitted to the voters.] Before 

 any bonds are issued or tax levied, as provided in the next t\vo preceding 

 sections, the question of issuing the bonds shall be submitted to the voters 

 of the township or municipal corporation at a general or special election. 

 And whenever the trustees of any township or hamlet or the council of 

 any municipal corporation shall by resolution declare it necessary to 

 issue and sell the bonds of such township, hamlet or municipal corpora- 

 tion, as the case may be, for any or either of the purposes mentioned in 

 section 2835 of the Revised Statutes in any amount specified in such 

 resolution and shall by such resolution fix a date upon which the ques- 

 tion of issuing and selling such bonds shall be submitted to the electors 

 of such township, hamlet or municipality, and shall cause a copy of such 

 resolution to.be certified to the deputy state supervisors of the county in 

 which such township, hamlet or municipal corporation is situated, or 



