QUEEN ANNE'S COUNTY. 425D

for two successive weeks prior to the day of sale, in some newspaper pub-
lished in Queen Anne's County.

The advertisements and costs of sale shall be same as provided for the
sale of real estate for taxes. All sales of personal property for non-pay-
ment of taxes thereon shall be made on or before the second Saturday of
February next succeeding the year for which said taxes shall be due.*

LIGHT PLANT.+

1920, ch. 83, sec. 1.

344. The Town Commissioners of Queenstown, a municipal corpora-
tion, are hereby fully authorized and empowered to construct, erect or
acquire by purchase and maintain an electric light, heat and power plant
sufficient for the purpose of properly lighting the streets and alleys of
the town of Queenstown, Queen Anne's County, Maryland, and for the
purpose of supplying the citizens, inhabitants and corporations of said
town, and the vicinity of said town within the limits of Queen Anne's
County, aforesaid, in the discretion of the Commissioners of said town,
with electricity in sufficient quantity for their needs in any and all its.
forms for all purposes; and the word "Plant" employed in this Act shall
include all lands, buildings, leases, machinery, engines, poles, wires, arte-
sian wells and other appliances necessary or advisable in the opinion of the
Town Commissioners of Queenstown for the production of electrical power
and its transmission to the point of consumption, together with the lamps
required for the proper lighting of the streets, alleys and public places,
of said town and the vicinity of said town within the limits of Queen
Anne's County aforesaid.

1920, ch. 83, sec. 2.

345. The Town Commissioners of Queenstown shall have full power
and authority to acquire by purchase to make all contracts for the purchase
or construction and erection of said plant, and for the maintenance of the
same; to purchase all supplies and materials needed in conducting, main-
taining and repairing the same and for the extension and enlargement
of the same to meet all legitimate demands; to employ such superintend-
ents, workmen and other empolyees as may be necessary and proper to
carry on said plant and to fix their compensation; and to do all acts neces-
sary to carry out the provisions of this Act and the accomplishment of the
objects thereof.

1920, ch. 83, sec. 3

346. The Town Commissioners of Queenstown shall have full power
and authority to acquire by purchase, lease, gift, devise, or by condemna-
tion in the manner prescribed in Sections 331 and 337, inclusive, of

*Sec. 2, ch. 175, 1918, repealed all laws Inconsistent therewith.

+Ch. 626, 1927, authorized Queenstown to issue $4,000 of bonds for rebuilding
electric line from Centreville to Queenstown.