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plant, and for the maintenance of the same; to purchase all
supplies and materials needed in conducting, maintaining and
repairing the same and for the extension and enlargement of
same to meet all legitimate demands; to employ such superin-
tendents, firemen, workmen and other employees as may be nec-
essary and proper to carry on said plant and to fix their com-
pensation; and to do all acts necessary to carry out the pro-
visions of this act and the accomplishment of the objects thereof.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the Town Commissioners
of Centreville shall have full power and authority to acquire by
purchase, lease, gift, devise, or by condemnation in the manner
prescribed in sections 360 to 366, inclusive, of Article 23 of
the Code of Public General Laws of Maryland, any land or
interest therein, any pole line, with its equipment of wires,
switches, lamps, etc., already erected for electrical purposes,
in the town of Centreville aforesaid, or in Queen Anne's county
beyond the limits of said town, which may be needed for the
construction, operation and maintenance of said plant and the
sale and transmission of electrical energy or current.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That the Town Commissioners
of Centreville shall have full power and authority to furnish
and supply the citizens, inhabitants and corporations of said
town, and of the vicinity of the said town within the limits of
Queen Anne's county aforesaid in its discretion, with electric
power and energy for all purposes; to sell electric power and
current and to provide for its transmission to points of con-
sumption in said town or in Queen Anne's county aforesaid
beyond the limits of said town; to fix and establish, and from
time to time change schedules of rates and charges for said
electric power and energy; to make from time to time rules
and regulations in regard to the collection of said rates, the
furnishing and supplying or discontinuing of any electric serv-
ice to the consumer thereof or the use thereof by consumers,
including all connections made with buildings of consumers;
but no service of electric power shall continue to be furnished
to any consumer if such consumer shall be in arrears for thirty
days on account of electric service furnished by said corpora-
tion.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That the Town Commissioners of
Centreville be and it is hereby authorized to borrow on the
faith and credit of said corporation a sum of money not to
exceed the sum of twenty thousand dollars ($20,000) and to
issue coupon bonds in the name of said corporation for the
amount so borrowed, each bond to be issued for the sum of five
hundred dollars, and to be signed in the name of said corpora-