PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, ESQ., GOVERNOR. 979

mont at any regular general or duly advertised special election
for approval or rejection by such qualified voters, and in pursu-
ance of an ordinance to be passed therefor, of which election
and the fact that the question is to be submitted to the voters
notice shall be given, posted in five or more public places in said
town, for at least one week previous to such election, and also
by one insertion in a newspaper published in said town, explain-
ing to the qualified voters the question to be submitted, at which
election the qualified voters of Thurmont shall determine by
ballot whether the obligation hereinbefore authorized shall be
incurred or not, and at which election there shall be written
or printed on the ballots of said voters the words "For Addi-
tional Light Debt," or "Against Additional Light Debt," and
if a majority of the ballots cast upon that question shall con-
tain the words "For additional Light Debt," then this act shall
become operative, and the said Commissioners of Thurmont
shall have authority to incur the obligation hereinbefore men-
tioned ; but if a majority of said ballots shall contain the words
"Against Additional Light Debt," then this act shall be void
and of non effect; and the judges of said municipal election,
or a majority of them, shall return to the President of the
Board of Commissioners of said town the number of ballots
cast "For Additional Light Debt" and the number cast "Against
Additional Light Debt," respectively, and the said President
of the Board of Commissioners shall announce the result
thereof.

SEC. 4. And be U enacted, That if this act should become
operative by the vote of said qualified voters of said town, and
the said Commissioners of Thurmont should incur the obliga-
tion authorized by this act, they shall have power and authority
and are hereby required to levy all necessary taxes upon the
property within the taxable limits of said Town of Thurmont
for the payment of the interest upon the debt hereby author-
ized to be created, whether in the form of bonds or notes, as
well as for the payment of the same at maturity, and shall create
a sinking fund for that purpose and levy the necessary taxe?
therefor.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.

Approved April 11, 1912.