68 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [Ch. 29]

lished twice a week for two weeks prior to said election in at
teast three (3) daily newspapers published in the City of
Baltimore, one of which shall be in the German language.
Approved March 13, 1912.

CHAPTER 29.

AN ACT to authorize and empower the Town Commissioners of
Centreville to construct, erect or acquire and maintain an
electric light, heat and power plant for the purpose of light-
ing the streets of said town and of supplying the citizens and
corporations of said town and vicinity with electric power
in all its forms: to issue and sell its bonds an amounts not
exceeding twenty thousand dollars ($20,000) to provide
funds for that purpose; to levy taxes on the assessable prop-
erty in said town to redeem said bonds and to pay the inter-
est thereon; and to acquire lands and other property by con-
demnation and otherwise needed in the construction of said
plant.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the Town Commissioners of Centreville, a municipal
corporation, be and it is hereby fully authorized and empowered
to construct, erect or acquire by purchase and maintain an
electric light, heat and power plant sufficient for the purpose of
properly lighting the streets and alleys of the town of Centre-
ville, Queen Anne's county, Maryland, and for the purpose of
supplying the citizens, inhabitants and corporations of said
town, and the vicinity of said town within the limits of Queen
Anne's county aforesaid, in the discretion of the commissioners
of said town, with electricity in sufficient quantity for their
needs in any and all its forms for all purposes; and the word
"Plant" employed in this act shall include all lands, buildings,
leases, machinery, engines, poles, wires, artesian wells and other
appliances necessary or advisable in the opinion of the Town
Commissioners of Centreville for the production of electrical
power and its transmission to the point of consumption, together
with the lamps required for the proper lighting of the streets,
alleys and public places of said town and the vicinity of said
town within the limits of Queen Anne's county aforesaid.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the Town Commissioners
of Centreville shall have full power and authority to make all
contracts for the purchase or construction and erection of said