WASHINGTON COUNTY. 4807

1900, ch. 75, sec. 3.

386. The Mayor and Council of Hagerstown 'are hereby authorized
and required at their first regular meeting after receiving said estimates
of the Board of Street Commissioners, or as soon thereafter as practicable
to issue and sell bonds to an amount sufficient to cover the expenses set
forth in said estimate in accordance with the provisions of Chapter three
hundred and eighty-one* of the Acts of the General Assembly of Mary-
land passed at its January Session in the year eighteen hundred and nine-
ty-eight, and said Chapter three hundred and eighty-one of the Acts of the
General Assembly of Maryland passed at its January Session in the year
eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, is hereby confirmed and re-enacted in
all its provisions; and said provisions are hereby made applicable to any
issue of bonds prescribed by this Act, the same as if specifically incor-
porated herein.
Mealy v. Hagerstown, 92 Md. 741. Hagerstown v. Hagerstown Ry., 123 Md. 190.

1900, oh. 75, sec. 4.

387. The Board of Street Commissioners are hereby authorized and
empowered, for the purpose of this Act, to purchase or lease land either
improved or unimproved within the limits of Washington County, Mary-
land, in the name of the Mayor and Council of Hagerstown, and to erect,
change or alter such buildings thereon as may be necessary or advisable
in the opinion of the said Board of Street Commissioners, and to purchase
and contract for all other things necessary to complete the plant and equip-
ment authorized by this Act, which said plant and equipment when pur-
chased, shall be the property of the Mayor and Council of Hagerstown;
subject, however, to the power of the Board of Street Commissioners to
sell or exchange any part of said plant and equipment other than the build-
ings, when the same shall be worn out, inefficient or unserviceable, or it
shall be deemed advisable by the said Board of Street Commissioners to
replace the same with a better article; and to provide for the payment of
the buildings, plan and equipment authorized by this Act, the proceeds
arising from the bonds provided for in the preceding section of this Act
shall constitute a separate fund to be kept by the Collector of Taxes, and
to be applied to the payment of such buildings, plant and equipment and
to and for no other use and purpose. Said fund to be placed and drawn
out by said Board of Street Commissioners in manner provided for ac-
counts for street purposes in Section 322 of this Article.

1900, ch. 75, sec. 5.

388. The said Board of Street Commissioners shall furnish and supply
to the citizens of Hagerstown electric light service of a character usually
furnished to consumers, and collect at stated intervals not longer than one
month the amount charged therefor as compensation for the service of
such light; said Board of Street Commissioners shall make a schedule of
rates for which said light shall be furnished to the citizens of Hagers-

*Ch. 381, 1898, authorized Hagerstown to issue $60,000 of bonds for light plant.