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habitants of said town, and may hold a regular meeting one day every month for the transaction of the regular business of the board, for which services they shall receive not more than "one dol- lar per day.		Regular meetings.
Sec. 7. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect from the date of its passage, provided the sense of the people of said town he taken on the question of its adoption or rejection at the next annual election for Burgess and Commissioners of said town, at which election those persons entitled to vote for Burgess and Commissioners of said town, shall vote on said question by expressing in writing or on printed form the words, "For the		Take effect.
Act authorizing Water Works," or "Against the Act authorizing Water Works," as the case may be; and thereupon it shall be the duty of said Burgess and Commissioners to count the ballots cast, and if it shall appear to them that a majority of said ballots have been cast for the said Act, then it shall be the duty of the Burgess and Com- missioners to carry out the provisions of this Act, and if it shall appear that a majority of the votes so cast are against said Act, then the same shall be void and of no effect. Approved April 4, 1870.		Decided by voters,
CHAPTER 279.
AN ACT to amend the Act of Assembly of eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, Chapter two hundred and ninety-two, adding an additional section to Article fifty-one of the Code of Public General Laws, under the title of Landlord and Tenant, by repealing the same, and re-enacting the same as follows:
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the Act of Assembly of eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, Chapter two hundred and ninety-two, adding an additional section to Article fifty-one of the Code of Public General	Repealed and re-enacted.