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by said Judge, conditioned upon the faithful discharge of the duties of said
Treasurer; the said Board of County Commissioners shall also order and
have paid over to said Treasurer the proportion of the county road tax
to be levied and collected in the same manner as though the said Village
of Drummond was an incorporated town, and the said village shall, for
that purpose, be considered by said Board of County Commissioners as an
incorporated town in said county; all of said funds to be used directly by
or through said committee, exclusively for opening, improving, widening,
maintaining, repairing and lighting the streets, roads, lanes, approaches,
alleys, sidewalks, parking, drainage, sewerage, sanitation and other village
improvements, and for furnishing police and fire protection, clerical and
other public service, including the removal of ashes, garbage and other
refuse, and the disposal thereof, and for the enforcement of the require-
ments of all conveyances for properties situated in said village, and for
enforcing such building, sanitary and other regulations as said committee,
subject to the approval of the Board of County Commissioners may pre-
scribe for said village, or for any part thereof.

1916, ch. 22, sec. 3.

293. If in any year the majority of the said Drummond Citizens'
Committee shall decide the sum hereinbefore authorized to be taxed and
levied is in excess of the amount required for the ensuing year, then and
in that event, the said Com mittee may, on or before April 15 of any
year, notify in writing the County Commissioners of Montgomery County
to make a reduction in the said levy of thirty-five cents on each one hun-
dred (100) dollars of assessable property value, as hereinbefore provided
for, the amount of said reduction to be determined by the said Committee
and specified in the said notification to the County Commissioners; and
upon receipt of such notification the Board of County Commissioners of
Montgomery County is authorized, empowered and directed to make a levy
less than the said thirty-five cents in the amount determined and specified
by the said Committee.

1916, ch. 22, sec. 4.

294. From and after the passage of this Act until the first Monday in
May, 1917, the said Committee for the said village of Drummond shall
be constituted as follows:

Perry K. Thurston, John A. Fleming and William D. Shoemaker; the
first named shall, until otherwise directed by said committee, be and con-
stitute the Chairman thereof, each of whom shall qualify as such Com-
mitteeman by taking the oath prescribed by the Constitution of this State;
in case any of such persons shall fail to so qualify within twenty days after
the passage of this Act, or any of their successors shall fail to so qualify
within twenty days after election as such Committeeman, as hereinafter
provided, or in case of any vacancy through death, resignation or other-
wise, the remaining committeemen shall fill such vacancy by the appoint-
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