Section 25

Section 25. From and after the first day of January, 1841, it shall be lawful for the commissioners of the district of Southwark, and their successors, to collect all the income and rents issuing from the public landings, wharves and market houses, in the said district, together with such other rents, issues or income derived from any other source other than taxes, and after deducting therefrom the expense of keeping the said landings and market houses in repair and order, forthwith set apart the said rents and income, and hold them inviolably in trust for the following purposes and uses, and for no other use or purpose whatever; that is to say, they, the said commissioners or their successors, shall, as soon as can be, appropriate the said moneys to the payment of the debt of said district, as it becomes due, or to the purchase of the same at par, or at a less price, and when this cannot be done, the said moneys shall be invested in the debt of the city or county of Philadelphia, or in the debt of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and the interest thereon shall be suffered to grow and accumulate; which said fund so to be invested from time to time, as aforesaid, together with the interest, profit or income, accumulated therein and re-invested, as hereinbefore directed, shall be exclusively set apart and denominated the sinking fund of the district of Southwark, and shall be solely appropriated and applied to the extinguishment of the principal or capital sum of the funded debt of the said district, as it may become due, or be purchased at par or for less price, and to and for no other use or purpose whatever.