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continued in such name and remain unaffected by the adoption of this
Charter. The Mayor and Councilmen and all other officers of the town
in office at the date of this Act shall hold their offices until their successors
are elected or appointed and qualified as herein provided. All ordinances,
regulations and resolutions now in force and not inconsistent with the pro-
visions of this Act shall remain in force until altered or repealed by com-
petent authority. No provisions of this Act shall affect any right, lien
or liability subsisting on the date of its passage.

1914, ch. 351, sec. 34.

382. The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company is required to keep
a flagman or signalman stationed during each and every day from 7 o'clock
A. M. to 9 o'clock P. M. in each year, at each of the crossings of its rail-
road over Frederick Avenue, Chestnut Street and Summit Avenue in said
town, to warn persons using said streets and crossings over said railroad,
at said crossings, of the approaching of trains, cars or engines upon said
railroad.

1914, ch. 351, sec. 35.

383. No railroad company whose tracks cross any street or public road
in said town shall permit any of its cars to obstruct said street or road
for a longer period than five minutes.

Any such railroad company violating the provisions of this Section,
shall upon conviction thereof, before any of the Justices of the Peace of
said county, be fined not more than ten dollars ($10) and costs. In any
such proceeding, service of a summons upon any ticket agent shall be a
sufficient, service upon said railroad company.

1914, ch. 351, sec. 36.

384. All Acts and parts of Acts inconsistent with any of the provi-
sions of this Act are hereby repealed.

1914, ch. 351, sec. 37.

385. This Act is hereby declared to be a public Act, and may be read
in evidence in all the Courts of this State without proof.

WATER AND SEWERS.

1922, ch. 216, sec. 1.

386. The Mayor and Council of Gaithersburg are hereby authorized,
empowered and directed to design and construct water supply and sewer-
age systems for the town of Gaithersburg, including wells, intakes, purifi-
cation works, reservoirs, pumping stations, elevated tanks, distribution
mains, lateral and main sewers, disposal plants, and all required appurte-
nances, both within and without the corporate limits of the town, as the
Mayor and Council may deem necessary; to maintain and operate the said
systems; to purchase or condemn whatever property, rights-of-way, water