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rescind such contract. Nothing in this section contained shall render it
unlawful for the Board of Street Commissioners, in the event of necessity
to purchase fuel in small quantities, to keep the plant in operation until a
contract can be made under the provisions of this Act.

1900, ch. 75, sec. 16.

399. All sums of money that may be in the hands of the Tax Collector
on the first day of January, in the year nineteen hundred and one, and
held by him under the provisions of the Charter of Hagerstown as a fund
to pay the cost and expenses of any contract for the lighting of the streets
and public places of Hagerstown, and all sums of money received after
said first day of January by the Tax Collector for such purpose under any
levy, shall be credited to and constitute part of the lighting fund described
in Section 392 of this Article, and to be applied and drawn out in man-
ner and form provided for said lighting fund in said Section 392.*

1920, ch. 40, sec. 3. 1924, ch. 380, sec. 3.

400. To provide for the payment of said bonds authorized to be issued
by this Act, as they shall mature and for the payment of interest thereon
when due and payable there shall be levied by the Mayor and Council of
Hagerstown, annually upon all the property in Hagerstown liable to tax-
ation for Ten years, after the date of the issue of said bonds, an amount
sufficient to pay the interest on said bonds, so issued and at the expiration
of said ten years from the date of issue of said bonds, there shall be levied
by the Mayor and Council of Hagerstown, annually upon all the property
liable, to taxation in Hagerstown an amount sufficient to pay the interest
on said bonds and Ten Thousand Dollars of the principal thereof; and
the ilayor and Council of Hagerstown shall thereafter levy annually upon
all the property liable to taxation in Hagerstown, an amount sufficient to
pay Ten Thousand Dollars of the principal and all interest on said bonds
until the said debt is paid in full, and the said bonds so issued shall be
made to fall due so as to be payable as herein provided.+

Hagerstown v. Littleton, 143 Md. 591. Littleton v. Hagerstown, 150 Md. 163.
Public Serv. Commn, v. Byron, 153 Md. 464.

1924, ch. 380, sec. 5.

401. All sums of money collected from the consumers of electricity
shall be immediately paid over to the tax collector of Hagerstown, and
the money so received shall constitute a fund to be known as "the electric
light fund," and to be applied to the costs and expenses incident to the
operation, maintenance and extension of said plant, and to the payment
of the interest on said bonds, and other fixed charges thereon, and toward
the carrying out of the provisions of this Act, and such ordinances relat-
ing to said Electric Light Plant aforesaid, as may be enacted from time
to time by the Mayor and Council of Hagerstown, in conformity with

*Sec. 17, ch. 75, 1900, repealed all Acts inconsistent therewith.
+The other sections of ch. 380, 1924, authorized $300,000 of bonds for electric
light plant.