To provide a fund to pay the cost of the sprinkling under sections 723.17 to 723.19, inclusive, of the Revised Code, the board or officer having charge of the repair of streets in the municipal corporation, each year, may estimate the cost thereof and cause a tax to be levied for such purpose upon the general tax duplicate of the municipal corporation, in the same manner and subject to the same conditions as other levies for municipal purposes, except that the levy may be in addition to the amount authorized for municipal purposes. Upon such estimate, the levy shall be made by the legislative authority of the municipal corporation. Street railway companies operating within such municipal corporation shall annually pay into the treasury of the municipal corporation one cent per lineal foot of track upon sprinkled streets as their part of the cost of such sprinkling.