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SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect from the date of its passage. Approved March 9, 1876.

' In force.

CHAPTER 38.
AN ACT to authorize the Mayor and City Council of Cumberland to issue bonds to raise money to complete and furnish the City Hall and Market in the city of Cumberland.
WHEREAS, by an ordinance of the Mayor and City Council of Cumberland, and by an affirmative vote of a large majority of the voters of said city, the sum of fifty thousand dollars, in six per cent, bonds, was authorized to be issued for the building of a City Hall and Market, and whereas the said amount of bonds has been issued, and the proceeds thereof disposed of for the purpose therein specified, and it is found necessary to obtain therefor the further sum of thirty- five thousand dollars to complete and furnish the same, therefor:	Preamble.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the said Mayor and City Council of Cumberland, be and they are hereby authorized and empowered, for the purpose of completing and fur- nishing the new City Hall and Market now in course of erection in said city, to issue additional bonds to an amount not exceeding thirty-five thousand dollars, and only so much thereof as may be necessary, in sums not less than one hundred dollars, nor more than five hundred dollars, to be signed by the Mayor and countersigned by the City Clerk, with the corpo- rate seal of said city thereto attached, said bonds to	To issue bonds to complete City Hall and Market.
bear interest at the rate of six per cent, per annum, the interest payable semi-annually in gold coin or its equivalent in United States currency, for which inte- rest proper coupons are to be attached to said bonds	Interest.