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shall have power, by ordinance, to license and regulate hackney coaches,
carts, drays, wagons, or other carriages kept for hire and employed within
the City, with power to make all necessary regulations respecting the
same, and also the power to sell sand or clay from any of the streets, lanes
or alleys of the City, when in the judgment of the Mayor and City Coun-
cil, the same is not needed for grading purposes.

1916, ch. 680, sec. 339.

334. The Mayor and City Council are hereby authorized and empow-
ered to borrow on the faith and credit of the City any sum or sums of
money not exceeding in the aggregate five thousand dollars and may issue
bonds or other evidences of indebtedness for the same, and in such sums
and payable at such times as they may by ordinance prescribe; provided,
however, that at no time or times shall the Mayor and City Council bor-
row any sum or sums of money exceeding in the aggregate five thousand
dollars without first obtaining the consent of a majority of the legally
qualified voters of said City, except the bonds herein specially provided
for in Sections 304 and 335; any bonds or other evidences of indebtedness,
claim or demand for any sum or sums of money in excess of the sum of
five thousand dollars as aforesaid, hereafter issued or existing on account
of any sum or sums of money borrowed by said City in excess of the afore-
said sum of five thousand dollars without having first obtained the con-
sent of a majority of the legally qualified voters of said City as aforesaid,
shall be absolutely void and of no effect, and shall be unenforceable in
the hands of the holder or holders thereof whosoever he or they may be.

1916, ch. 680, sec. 340. 1922, ch. 174.

335. Whenever the Mayor and City Council of Havre de Grace, having
first obtained the approval of and consent of a majority of the legally
qualifed voters of said city as herein provided for, shall determine to
purchase or erect any gas plant, electric light plant, water plant or sys-
tem of sewers for said city, they are hereby authorized and empowered
to borrow on the credit of said city a sum of money necessary for such
purchase or erection and to issue bonds therefor. And said bonds shall
be issued in the manner and under the same terms and conditions as to
form, maturity, redemption, payment, sinking fund and other particulars
as in this Act provided, for the issue of bonds for the liquidation of the
present floating indebtedness of said city and shall at no time exceed
eight per centum of the taxable basis of said city.

Water Co. v. Havre de Grace, 150 Md. 241.

1922, ch. 176.

336. The Mayor and City Council of Havre de Grace are hereby au-
thorized and empowered to issue bonds on the credit of said City for the
purchase of the plant, pipes, reservoir and other property of the Havre
de Grace Water Company, provided that the provisions of Ordinance No.
172, approved June 16, 1903, as to notice, appraisal, etc., be complied