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thereafter cause to be delivered to the clerk of the circuit court the award
filed by said Commissioners, together with a copy of the order of said
Commissioners ratifying or rejecting the same, and all other papers re-
lating thereto. And the said Commissioners may enact all ordinances nec-
essary from time to time to exercise the powers granted in this section,
and may exercise all such others and incidental powers and acts as may
be necessary for the exercise of the powers herein conferred upon them;
provided further, that all such damages shall in all cases be paid to the
respective parties or their guardians, agents or attorneys, or their personal
representatives, before any such highways, roads, streets, lanes or alleys
shall be opened, widened, straightened, changed or closed, or any subway
shall be constructed as hereinbefore provided. None of the proceedings
herein shall be held to be invalid because of neglect of compliance with
matters of form; provided it shall appear that the substantial require-
ments herein are essentially complied with and that no injustice has been
done to any of the parties because of non-compliance with such matters of
form; and provided further, that the said Commissioners shall have the
same powers as to cutting across streets or highways and into adjacent
lands for the purpose of draining that are now passed by the County Com-
missioners or Supervisors of Roads for said county.

1912. ch. 770, sec. 116G.

196. The Town Commissioners of La Plata are hereby empowered to
borrow in addition to the present bonded indebtedness of the said Town
of La Plata, created under Chapter 659 of the Acts of the General As-
sembly of Maryland, passed at the January Session of 1908, an amount
sufficient to pay the actual costs of boring the artesian well in the said
Town of La Plata as far as the work upon the same has been done and
to complete the same not to exceed in the aggregate the sum of three
thousand dollars, subject to the limitation hereinafter set forth, and to
issue therefor bonds in sums of not less than one hundred dollars, nor more
than five hundred dollars each; each bond to be signed by the President
of the said Town Commissioners and countersigned by the clerk thereof,
and a]l of them to be issued at the option of the Commissioners and to
bear rate of interest not to exceed five per centum per annum. The inter-
est on said bonds hereby authorized to be payable semi-annually on the
first day of January and the first day of July, in each year according to
the terms of coupons to be attached thereto, said bonds to be exempt from
all taxation, and the coupons thereon when due to be receivable for munic-
ipal taxes due to the said Town of La Plata, the said Town Commission-
ers to annually set aside as a sinking fund a sum not less than twenty
per cent, of the municipal taxes collected as such during each succeeding
year, until such bonds as may have been issued by said Commissioners
shall mature, as provided in this or any other previous Act, when said fund
shall be applied to the liquidation and redemption of the same.