4808 ARTICLE 22.

town; said rates to be reasonable in amount and not lower than such as
would suggest themselves to a prudent business man having reference to
the profitable operation of the plant, and said Board of Street Commis-
sioners are hereby authorized from time to time to make such reasonable
rules and regulations as they may deem proper in regard to the furnishing,
supplying or discontinuing any electric light service to the consumers
thereof, or the use thereof by such consumers, including all connections
made with the buildings of consumers, and no service of electric light shall
continue to be furnished to any consumer if such consumer shall be in
arrears for thirty days on any account for light furnished by the said
Board of Street Commissioners; and the said Board of Street Commis-
sioners shall have power and authority to purchase all material, lamps
and supplies necessary to carry out the purposes of this section, and supply
the same to consumers subject to the provisions of this section of this Act.

1900, ch. 75, sec. 6.

389. All sums of money collected from consumers as provided in the
preceding section of this Act shall be immediately paid over to the clerk,
who shall receipt for the same and enter it to the credit of a separate
account to be known as the lighting fund, and said clerk shall forthwith
pay over the moneys when received into the hands of the tax collector,
and the sum of money so received shall constitute part of a separate fund
to be kept by the tax collector, and to be known as the lighting fund, and
to be applied to the payment of the costs and expenses incident to carrying
out the provisions of this Act, and to and for no other use and purpose.
Said fund to be placed and drawn out by said Board of Street Commis-
sioners as directed by Section 322 of this Article, and the said Board of
Street Commissioners shall have power, in the event that they shall impose
on the clerk by virtue of the provisions of this Act any duties additional to
those now performed by him, to allow out of the funds at their disposal to
said clerk as compensation therefor an annual sum not exceeding one hun-
dred and fifty dollars to be paid to said clerk in addition to the salary now
received by him.

1900, ch. 75, sec. 7.

390. The said Board of Street Commissioners shall also have control
of the lighting of the streets, lanes, alleys, squares, highways and public
places of the city of Hagerstown, and are empowered and authorized to
operate and maintain the plant provided by this Act, and to provide fuel
and material, employ engineers, linemen, collectors, agents and other
necessary labor, and to make all needful provisions for carrying out the
purposes of this Act, and to make such repairs, changes or alterations as
from time to time they may deem proper and necessary; provided, that
the wages or compensation given to any employes shall not be greater than
that given to an employe performing similar services in private enter-
prises of a similar nature, and that such employe when appointed shall
only be subject to removal for cause other than political or religious affilia-
tion or belief.