406 THIRTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 82. 1862. so reduce and graduate the tax thereon as not to exceed in all a tax upon one hundred feet front; and shall, in all cases where said property may have a front on any one or more streets, of more than one hundred feet, so reduce and graduate the tax thereon as not to exceed a tax upon ono hundred feet front. Ordinances, Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That all ordinances and resolutions gg; g‘;"g;f;;‘;’,::, or parts thereof relating to the distribution of Potomac water through Mitigation of wa. said town, and the collection of a water tax, and the ordinances and reso- WF *8-X. ratified- lutions heretofore passed by said Corporation particularly mentioned in this section, be and the same are hereby ratified and confirmed, said ordinances and resolutions being described and identified as follows, to wit: A resolution approved April the twenty-third, eighteen hundred and fifty- List cfordi· nine, entitled “A resolution authorizing the tapping of water mains ;" a “°“°°’·&°· resolution approved May the seventh, eighteen hundred and fifty-nine, entitled "A resolution authorizing the laying of a water main up High street;" an ordinance approved May the ninth, eighteen hundred and fifty-nine, entitled “An ordinance authorizing the distribution of the Potomac water through the city of Georgetown ;" a resolution approved May the fourteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-nine, entitled "A resolution repealing a part of a resolution for laying a water main up High street ; " an ordinance approved July the second, eighteen hundred and fifty-nine, entitled “A supplement to an ordinance authorizing the distribution of the Potomac water through the city of Georgetown, approved May the ninth, eighteen hundred and fifty-nine;" a resolution approved July the second, eighteen hundred and fifty-nine, entitled “A resolution approving of certain contracts for distributing water through the town ;" a resolution approved August the twentieth, eighteen hundred and fifty-nine, entitled " A resolution in relation to the water distribution ;" a resolution approved September the seventeenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-nine, entitled “A resolution authorizing the water board to purchase water pipes ; " a resolution approved September the seventeenth, eighteen hundred and fifty- nine, entitled "A resolution in relation to water distribution ;" a resolution approved September the twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and fifty- nine, entitled "A resolution supplementary to a resolution, entitled ‘A resolution in relation to the water distribution, approved August the twentieth, eighteen hundred and fifty-nine ; ’ " a resolution approved September the twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and fifty-nine, entitled "A resolution in relation to the redemption of water stock ; " a resolution approved October twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and fifty-nine, entitled “ A resolution in relation to water mains ; " a resolution approved November the fifth, eighteen hundred and fifty-nine, entitled "A resolution approving the contract for patent water-pipes for Road street ;" a resolution approved November the nineteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-nine, entitled “A resolution repealing a portion of the resolution approved April the twenty-third, eighteen hundred and fifty-nine, in relation to tapping water-mains.” ~ l_ Pwprpty cfde- Sec. 5. And 62 iifurther enacted, That in case of a failure to pay any J12q;;'; ,t;’;g‘Qf’ taxes whatever laid by said corporation by virtue of its vested powers, it shall be lawful to sell, in the discretion of the collector or other proper officer, either the real or personal estate, or both, of the delinquent taxpayer; and so much of the eighth section of the act approved May the Repeater parrot twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and twenty-four, entitled "An act supple- 18%,(;l°iR195·_I%8· mentary to the act ‘to incorporate the inhabitants of the city of Wash- 'p'ington,’ passed the fifteenth of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty, and for other purposes," as is in the following words, viz : “Provided, That no sale of real estate shall be made but where the owner or tenant of the property has not sufficient personal estate out of which to enforce a collection of the debt due," be and the same is hereby repealed. Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That the person or persons ap-
