EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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tion 2 of this Act, shall be handed over to the Tax Collector,

who shall receipt for the same, which receipt shall be filed

Tax Collector
to bond for

and safely kept by the Clerk of the Mayor and Council, and

their safe
keeping.

the bond of the Tax Collector shall be responsible for the safe

keeping by the said Tax Collector of said bonds and the pro-

ceeds thereof. The Tax Collector shall sell said bonds at

public auction at such times and in such amounts as the

Mayor and Council shall order; he shall transfer and deliver

the same to the purchaser and receive the money therefor, and

shall report under oath to the Mayor and Council his proceed-

ings in the premises, with the names of the persons to whom

said bonds have been transferred, together with the amounts

received by him from said sales ; said money shall be credited

on the books of the Tax Collector to the D'rainage Fund and

Money to be
properly

shall be paid out by him for the purposes named in Section I

credited.

of this Act for which it is received, and in the manner pro-

vided.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted. That the Mayor and Council shall

cause to be kept a careful register of the bonds so issued.

Cancellation
of bonds.

and the transfer thereof, and as the same are called in and

paid off they shall be cancelled, and a record of the cancella-

tion by numbers, amounts and names of the last holders of

said bonds shall be made and entered upon the books in which

said bonds are registered; provided, however, that at an elec-

tion to be held on the fourth Sunday in March, 1904, the crea-

tion of the debt herein provided for shall be submitted to the

qualified voters of Hagerstown, who shall cast their ballots

marked, printed or written, "For Series Four of Drainage

Bonds" Dr "Against Series Four of Drainage Bonds,' respec-

tively, as such voters shall desire to vote in favor of or against

said loan : and if a majority of the votes so cast shall be "For

Series Four of Drainage Bonds,' then Sections I, 2, 3, 4 and

5 of this Act shall be in effect; and if a majority of the votes

so cast shall be ''Against Series Four of Drainage Bonds,"

Vote to be

the said sections herein designated shall be null and void; and

taken.

the Mayor shall give five days' notice that the matters pro-

vided for in this Act will be submitted to the voters of Hagers-

town, by publication in the daily newspapers of said town five

days before the day of said election.

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect

from the date of its passage.

Approved March 22, 1904.