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such sum or sums of money as may be necessary to enable said Commis-
sion to carry on said work, such loans, however, at no time to exceed in
the aggregate fifteen hundred dollars ($1,500) ; provided a separate ac-
count shall be kept of the moneys expended or received for or on account
of such work, and that said Commission apply, at frequent periods, excess
cash in hand from said work to the reduction of said loans, if any be
made, and provided further, that such work shall be done by the Com-
mission at cost together with legal interest thereon until paid.

CODIFICATION OF ORDINANCES.

1894, ch. 400.

232. The commissioners of said town may provide by ordinance for
the codification of all ordinances which have been or may hereafter be
passed by it, and for the printing of such codification thereof; and the
printed copy thereof, issued by authority and under the sanction of said
board of commissioners, shall be legal evidence of the passage of said
ordinances and the contents thereof in any court of law or equity in the
State.

STREET IMPROVEMENTS.

1890, ch. 307. 1904, ch. 189. 1910, oh. 629 (p. 1144). 1920, ch. 25.

233. The County Commissioners of Talbot County shall pay annually
to the Mayor and Council of Easton, Talbot County, the sum of twenty
five hundred dollars ($2,500.00) out of the county taxes levied upon the
property within the limits of the town of Easton, in said county, to be
disbursed by the Mayor and Council of Easton for the permanent im-
provement of the streets and road beds in said town of Easton, or to be
applied toward the payment of any bonded indebtedness that may be
incurred by the said Mayor and Council of Easton for the permanent
improvement of the streets and road beds of said town; provided that no
money be paid hereunder until and unless the said Mayor and Council
of Easton shall on or before January first in each year file with the Coun-
ty Commissioners of Talbot County an itemized statement, with the vouch-
ers therefor, showing that for the year then ended an actual expenditure
of at least twenty-five hundred dollars ($2,500) has been made for the
permanent improvement of the streets and road beds of the said town of
Easton, or has been applied toward the payment of any bonded indebted-
ness incurred for permanent improvement of the streets and road beds
of said town of Easton.*

1920, ch. 26, sec. 1. 1927, ch, 137, sec. 2.

234. The Mayor and Council of Easton are hereby authorized and
empowered to pave, curb and otherwise improve the streets, alleys, high-
ways and sidewalks of the town of Easton, whenever by ordinance they
shall so provide.

*Sec. 3, ch. 25, 1920, repealed so much of ch. 189, 1904, as applies to Easton.