JOHN WALTER SMITH, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

lanes, highways or other public places in the City of Hagers-
town, except by electrical or other appliances owned, operated
and maintained by the Mayor and Council of said city.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of the
Board of Street Commissioners of Hagerstown, as soon as pos-
sible after the passage of this Act, to take cognizance of the
duties hereby imposed upon them, and within three months

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after the passage of this Act shall submit to the Mayor and
Council of Hagerstown an estimate of the cost of con-
structing and equipping a plant to supply electrical energy or
power sufficient in amount to satisfy the needs for lighting of
said Mayor and Council and the citizens of Hagerstown. In
determining and forming said estimates, the said Board of

Estimate of
cost.

Street Commissioners shall advertise in suitable journals or
newspapers for proposals comprising the whole or any part of
such plant and equipment to be submitted under such terms
and conditions as said Board of Street Commissioners may
deem proper, and said Board of Street Commissioners are
authorized and empowered to hire or employ the service of
some reliable electrical engineer or person conversant with
the subject matter in hand, who shall assist them in the per-
formance of the duties herein set forth ; the salary or compen-
sation of such employee to be included in said estimates; and
the words "plant" and "equipment" employed in this Act
shall include all lands, buildings, leases, machinery, engines,
poles, wires and other appliances necessary or advisable in
the opinion of the Board of Street Commissioners, to the pro-
duction of electrical power or energy and its transmission to
the point of consumption, together with the lamps required
for the proper lighting of the streets, lanes, alleys and public
places of Hagerstown.

Advertise for.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the Mayor and Council of
Hagerstown are hereby authorized and required at their first
regular meeting after receiving said estimates of the Board of
Street Commissioners, or as soon thereafter as practicable to
issue and sell bonds to an amount sufficient to cover the ex-
penses set forth in said estimate in accordance with the pro-
visions of Chapter three hundred and eighty-one of the Acts
of the General Assembly of Maryland passed at its January
Session in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and
said Chapter three hundred and eighty-one of the Acts of the
General Assembly of Maryland passed at its January Session
in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, is hereby con-
firmed and re-enacted in all its provisions; and said provisions
are hereby made applicable to any issue of bonds prescribed
by this Act, the same as if specifically incorporated herein.

Authority to
issue bonds.