Municipal and Private Operation of Public Utilities: Report to the National Civic Federation Commission on Public Ownership and Operation, Part 2, Volume 1National civic federation, 1907 - Municipal ownership |
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Page 798 - ... provide for the collection of a direct annual tax sufficient to pay the interest on such debt as it falls due, and also to pay and discharge the principal thereof within twenty years from the time of contracting the same.
Page 798 - No county, city, township school district or other municipal corporation shall be allowed to become indebted in any manner or for any purpose to an amount, including existing indebtedness in the aggregate exceeding five per centum on the value of the taxable property therein, to be ascertained by the last assessment for State and county taxes previous to the incurring of such indebtedness.
Page 31 - The exercise of the power and the right of eminent domain shall never be so construed or abridged as to prevent the taking, by the general assembly...
Page 437 - Convention of American instructors of the Deaf, and their associates and successors be, and they are hereby, incorporated and made a body politic and corporate in the District of Columbia by the name of the "Convention of American Instructors of the Deaf...
Page 356 - No county, city, township, school district or other municipal corporation shall be allowed to become indebted in any manner or for any purpose to an amount, including existing indebtedness, in the aggregate exceeding five per centum on the value of the taxable property therein, to be ascertained by the last assessment for State and county taxes previous to the incurring of such indebtedness.
Page 86 - That the department of public works at least twelve months before the expiration of any such contract or contracts, which are, or may hereafter be in force, shall by publication, once each week for two successive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in such city, give notice that it will receive bids for such supplies.
Page 81 - ... at such rates as may be fixed by ordinance, and for a period not exceeding thirty years...
Page 413 - The right of the Commonwealth, through such instrumentalities as it may select, to prescribe and define the public duties of all common carriers and public service corporations, to regulate and control them in the performance of their public duties, and to fix and limit their charges therefor, shall never be surrendered nor abridged.
Page 634 - In Witness whereof the said parties to these presents have hereunto interchangably set their hands and seals the day and year first above written.
Page 418 - ... to be observed by any public service corporation in connection with any services performed by it under a municipal or county franchise granted by such city, town or county, so far as such services may be wholly within the limits of the city, town or county granting the franchise.