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Funkstown" shall fix and designate the date when the said provisions of
this Act shall be submitted to the qualified voters of said town at such
regular or special election.

1929, ch. 67, sec. 4.

224. The manner of submission shall be, that, on the ballots at said
regular town election or at any subsequent election, there shall be printed
the words "For Water Bonds" and "Against Water Bonds," with a blank
square opposite at the right in each case for the cross (X) mark of the
voter. All the voters desiring to vote for the provisions of this Act shall
place a cross (X) mark in the square opposite the words "For Water
Bonds" and all voters desiring to vote against the provisions of this Act
shall place a cross (X) mark in the square opposite the words "Against
Water Bonds." If at the regular or any subsequent town election held
under the provisions of this Act, the majority of votes east shall be "For
Water Bonds," then the provisions of this Act shall immediately go into
effect, and the "Burgess and Commissioners of Funkstown" may proceed
at any time to execute the powers vested in them by the provisions of this
Act. In case the majority of votes cast at the regular or any subsequent
election held under the provisions of this Act shall be "Against Water
Bonds" the "Burgess and Commissioners of Funkstown" shall resubmit
the provisions of this Act to the qualified voters of said town at the next
regular election to be held in said town to be called under the provisions
of this Act, in the manner hereinbefore provided.

If the majority of the votes cast at the second election shall be "For
Water Bonds," then this Act shall immediately go into effect; but if a
majority of votes cast at said second regular election held under the pro-
visions of this Act shall be "Against Water Bonds," then, and in that
event, this Act shall be null and void. All the provisions of law governing
elections in said town are hereby made applicable to said elections, under
the provisions of this Act as fully as if they were incorporated therein,
except as they be contradicted by or are repugnant to the provisions of
this Act, and except further that it shall not be necessary, before holding
any such election as herein provided, to have any registration of voters
or any revision of the poll books of said town.

The judges of election at said elections shall at the close of the polls
on said election day cast up the votes and make certificate of the same in
the usual form and forward the said certificate and return the ballots
to the Clerk of the Court for Washington County, and upon receipt by
said Clerk of the said certificate and ballots he shall make proclamation
of the result by publication in one newspaper published in said county.

1929, ch. 67, sec. 5.

225. If the result of any of said elections shall be in favor of the bond
issue, then the Burgess of Funkstown, as soon after this Act becomes
effective, as it is possible so to do, by and with the advice and consent of
the Commissioners of said town, shall (immediately) appoint from the
residents who are bona fide property owners and taxpayers of said town,