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for each fire plug such sum annually as shall be agreed upon by said joint
stock water company and said mayor and council; and for the purposes
of meeting the expenses caused thereby, the said mayor and council are
hereby authorized and empowered to levy annually, in addition to the
taxes now authorized by law, upon the taxable property within the cor-
porate limits of Hagerstown, a tax, to be levied and collected the same as
other corporation taxes are levied and collected, sufficient to pay the sum
due annually for the erection, maintenance and supply of water thereto
of said additional fire plugs; and the said taxes levied and collected for
the purposes aforesaid, shall be kept as a separate fund and shall not be
used for any other purpose than to pay said joint stock water company
said annual sum for the erection, maintenance and supply of water thereto
of said additional fire plugs.

P. L. L,., 1888, Art. 22, sec. 216. 1880, cil. 457.

374. They are authorized and empowered, whenever they deem it
expedient, to levy and collect, in the same manner as other corporation
taxes are levied and collected, the sum of five hundred dollars, and to
expend so much thereof as may be necessary to employ a competent engi-
neer to make surveys, plans and specifications for, and careful estimates
of the cost of furnishing said Hagerstown with water works.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 22, sec. 217. 1880, ch. 457.

375. They are directed to publish in succinct form in the newspapers
of Hagerstown, the results of such surveys, plans and estimates of cost;
and they are empowered to order an election to be held at such time as
they shall designate, after the same notice and in the same manner as
corporate elections of said town are now held, to take the sense of the
people in respect to water works for said town; and at such election the
qualified voters then residing within the corporate limits of said town are
authorized to cast a ballot "for the contract for water works," or a ballot
"against the contract for water works," and the result of such election
shall be certified in the manner of certifying corporate elections to the
mayor and council of said town; and if the majority of the votes cast be
"for the contract for water works," the said mayor and council shall be
forthwith empowered and authorized to carry out and give effect to the
terms and provisions of this section in respect to a contract with a joint
stock water company as hereinbefore provided.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 22, sec. 218. 1880, ch. 133.

376. It shall not be lawful for the owners or lessees of any public hall,
church, school or place of amusement, in the cities of Hagerstown, Bal-
timore, Cumberland, Frederick, Annapolis or Frostburg, to obstruct, or to
allow to be obstructed by others, any of the aisles or passageways in the
auditorium of said halls, churches, schools or places of amusement, by
placing therein any benches, chairs or stools, or other articles that may
prevent free ingress or egress during the hours that said places may be
open to the public.