WASHINGTON COUNTY. 4809

1900, ch. 75, sec. 8.

391. During the month of May of each and every year the Board of
Street Commisisoners shall make a detailed report to the Mayor and Coun-
cil of Hagerstown of their operations of the lighting plant in their charge,
and at the same time shall furnish an estimate to the Mayor and Council
of the probable expense of conducting said plant for the ensuing year;
and the Mayor and Council shall have power at any time to appoint a
visitor who shall have the privilege of examining the books of the Board
of Street Commissioners and the plant operated by them, and shall report
the result of his investigation to the Mayor and Council.

1900, ch. 75, sec. 9.

392. To provide the sum of money necessary to pay the cost and ex-
penses of conducting and operating said plant, and fulfilling and comply-
ing with the provisions of this Act, the Mayor and Council of Hagerstown
are hereby authorized and required annually to levy on the assessable
property of the town ten cents on every one hundred dollars' worth of
assessable property, and the sum of money collected upon said levy shall
constitute part of a separate fund to be known as the lighting fund, and
to be kept by the Tax Collector and to be applied to the payment of said
cost and expenses, and to and for no other use and purpose. Said fund
to be placed and drawn out as directed by Section 322 of this Article,
and in case the said levy should not be sufficient to pay the said costs and
expenses, the Mayor and Council aforesaid is hereby authorized and re-
quired to levy and appropriate of the thirty cents of tax authorized by
Section 362 of this Article, and not otherwise specifically appropriated
by said section, as much thereof as may be necessary for the purpose of
raising the amount set forth in the estimate provided in Section 391 of
this Article, and the said sum of money so collected from said tax as
aforesaid, appropriated or levied with the sums received from pro rata
apportionment of the same, as provided by Section 321 of this Article,
shall constitute a separate fund known as a lighting fund, to be kept,
applied and drawn in the same manner and form as the same collected
from said taxes of ten cents; provided that the Mayor and Council of
Hagerstown shall not be compelled under the provisions of this section
to levy more than necessary to pay the amount set forth in the estimate
provided in Section 391 of this Article.

1900, ch. 75, sec. 10.

393. The provisions of Section 357 of this Article are hereby con-
tinued in force until the first day of January, in the year nineteen hun-
dred and one, but no contract made by the Board of Street Commissioners
under the provisions of said Act shall extend beyond or continue longer
than the said first day of January, nineteen hundred and one, and the pro-
visions of said Act shall not be in force or effect after the first day of Jan-
uary, nineteen hundred and one.