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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Issue of bonds
submitted
to voters of
said town.

SEC. 7. That at the election to be held in the town of Ken-
sington, in Montgomery County, Maryland, in the year 1900,
the question whether or not said town shall issue bonds to an
amount not exceeding twenty thousand dollars ($20,000) for
the purpose of providing a proper water supply for said town,
shall be and is hereby directed to be submitted to the legal
and qualified voters of said town; in order to advise the citi-
zens of said town of the intent of this Act it shall be the duty
of the Mayor and City Council to publish in some newspaper
of general circulation in said town the substance of this Act
for two weeks previous to said election, and to give such
other notice as they may deem necessary and proper; that at
said election the ballots shall have printed on them the words
"For the issue of water bonds" and "Against the issue of
water bonds;" if three-fifths of the ballots cast shall contain
the words "For the issue of water bonds," then this Act shall
become operative and binding; but if over two-fifths of said
ballots shall contain the words "Against the issue of water
bonds" then this Act shall be void and of no effect; and the
judges of said municipal election, or a majority of them, shall
return to the Mayor of said town the number of ballots cast
"For the issue of water bonds" and "Against the issue of
water bonds," respectively, and the Mayor shall publicly
announce the result thereof.

Approved April 7, 1900.
CHAPTER 467.

Wicomico Co.

AN ACT to extend the privileges, enlarge the powers and
amend the charter of the Sharptown Marine Railway Com-
pany of Sharptown, Wicomico County, Maryland, a corpo-
ration duly incorporated under the General Laws of this
State.

Sharptown
Marine Rail-
way Company,
etc.

WHEREAS, The Sharptown Marine Railway Company, of
Sharptown, Wicomico County, Maryland, was duly incorpo-
rated on the 1 3th day of April, 1899, under the provisions of
the General Laws of this State relating to the creation and
regulation of incorporated companies in the State of Maryland,
certificate of which incorporation is recorded amongst the
Corporation Records of Wicomico County in Liber J. V. T.,
No. 1, Folio 144, and is desirous of extending the privileges
and enlarging the powers of the said corporation; and