JOHN WALTER SMITH, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That the Mayor and Council shall
cause to be kept a careful register of the bonds so issued, and
the transfer thereof, and as the same are called in and paid off
they shall be cancelled, and a record of the cancellations by
numbers, amounts and names of the last holders of said bonds
shall be made and entered upon the books in which said
bonds are registered; provided, however, that at an election to
be held on the fourth Monday in March, nineteen hundred,
the creation of the debt herein provided for shall be submitted
to the qualified voters of Hagerstown, who shall cast their
ballot marked, printed or written, "For Series Three of
Drainage Bonds" or "Against Series Three of Drainage
Bonds," respectively, as such voters shall desire to vote in
favor of or against said loan; and if a majority of the votes so
cast shall be "For Series Three of Drainage Bonds," then
Sections i, 2, 3, 4 and 5 of this Act shall be in effect; and if
a majority of the votes so cast shall be "Against Series Three
of Drainage Bonds," the said sections herein designated shall
be null and void; and the Mayor shall give five days' notice
that the matters provided for in this Act will be submitted to
the voters of Hagerstown, by publication in at least two news-
papers of said town five days before the day of said election.

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.

Approved March 20, 1900.

CHAPTER 120.
AN ACT to repeal Chapter two hundred and thirty -one of
the Laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, entitled
an "Act to confer on the Chesapeake Beach Railway Com-
pany the powers, rights and franchises granted to the
Washington & Chesapeake Beach Railway Company, by
Chapter two hundred and forty-five of the Acts of eighteen
hundred and ninety-four, entitled "An Act to incorporate
the Town of Chesapeake Beach, in Calvert County," and
to re-enact said Chapter two hundred and forty-five of the
Acts of eighteen hundred and ninety-four, with amend-
ments.

Register and
cancellation
of bonds.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Chapter two hundred and thirty-one of the Laws
of eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, entitled an "Act to con-
fer upon the Chesapeake Beach Railway Company the powers,

Town of
Chesapeake
Beach.