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clerk to said Mayor and City Council and the treasurer of said town shall
each keep in a book or books, to be specially provided for the purpose, a
full registry of the bonds sold, the serial number of the bonds, and the
names and addresses of the purchasers and amount realized on sales, and
any transfers or assignments of the same.

1900, oh. 169, sec. 7. 1912 Code, sec. 423.

680. The fund realized from the sale of said bonds shall be applied
to the purposes of this Act, and shall be paid by check, signed by the said
water board, or three-fourths of the members thereof, and the said water
board of Laurel is hereby authorized and empowered to pass such orders
for the payment of moneys due for the construction of the said water
works, or to the contractor or contractors for the construction of the same
as shall from time to time be due or earned by the contractor or contractors
in the prosecution of the said works, and also from time to time to pass
orders for the payment of property purchased or condemned, and for mate-
rial furnished in pursuance of the provisions of this Act. The said water
board may in its discretion employ a competent hydrographical engineer
to superintend the work of constructing such water works.

1900, ch. 169, sec. 8. 1912 Code, sec. 424.

681. The true intent and meaning of this Act is that the extra taxation
authorized by this Act shall not be held or construed to authorize any taxa-
tion not necessary for the purpose of paying the interest on the bonds
issued, and the surplus fund provided for and any income arising from
water rents or electric light shall go to said interest or sinking fund in
diminution of taxes, and all taxes collected under the provisions of this
Act shall be inviolably applied to this purpose and no other. And if an
electric light plant be neither purchased nor erected, then the amount of
levy shall not exceed twenty cents on the one hundred dollars to pay the
interest on thirty-five thousand dollars of water bonds, and a sinking fund
of four hundred dollars annually, the amount of bonds for water works
alone not to exceed thirty-five thousand dollars.

1900, ch. 169, sec. 9. 1912 Code, sec. 425.

682. In any prosecution before a justice of the peace under Section
677 of this Article, the accused and the Mayor and City Council of Laurel
shall have the right of appeal to the Circuit Court for Prince George's
County within thirty days, and a jury trial. Any person or persons con-
victed before a justice of the peace under Section 677 of this Article who
shall pray an appeal to the said Court shall be held by recognizance or
be committed to the county jail to appear before the next regular jury
term of the Circuit Court for Prince George's County.
Waters v. Laurel, 93 Md. 222.

1901 (Special Session), ch. 5. 1912 Code, sec. 426.

683. The bonds as authorized by the said resolution or ordinance of
the Mayor and City Council of Laurel, Prince George's County, Mary-