EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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revised estimate of liabilities and expenditures. Said revised

detailed estimate, together with the new rate of taxation, shall

be published twice in a newspaper published and printed in

Montgomery County, and the adoption of the said revised

detailed estimate shall thereby be and become the appropria-

tion of the respective amounts for the respective purposes

therein stated, and the Council shall not audit, nor shall the

clerk draw or sign, any check in payment of any claim, unless

an appropriation therefor shall have been duly made in ac-

cordance with this Act, and said check shall be counter-

signed by the Mayor of said town. The Council shall an-

nually prepare and publish, not later than the first day of

Annual state-
ment to be

May in each year, a parallel statement of the appropriation

prepared and
published.

and the expenditure under said appropriation of the funds of

the town. The Council shall also cause to be made from

time to time during the said three-year periods, assessments

of improvements made and of other property not contained

in the general assessment list, and they shall make such other

provisions as may in their judgment be necessary to carry

into full force and effect the assessment herein provided for.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect

from the date of its passage.

Approved March 15, 1904.

CHAPTER 66.

AN ACT to create an additional Election District, to be

known as District 27, Allegany County, Maryland.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-

land, That the Board of Election Supervisors in and for Alle-

An Act creat-
ing an addi-

gany County shall lay out and divide parts of Districts Nos.

tional elec-
tion district.

10, 15 and 18, in said Allegany County, to be called District

No. 27, said district to be so divided that there shall be not

less than 150 voters at the time of said division in said district,

and the manner and course of their proceeding in said divi-

sion shall be as follows: On or before the first day of July,

1904. said Supervisors of Elections shall divide said district

as nearly as may be by metes and bounds, and shall insert a

description of said district in two papers of general circulation

in said Allegany County once a week for three successive

weeks before the first day of August, 1904, and on or be-

fore the first day of August, 1904, shall file a copy of said

notice and description and the printer's certified thereto