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conduct of the business of said electric light plant, and from time to time
to repeal, alter and amend said Ordinances and such rules and regulations.

STREET LIGHTING.

1916, ch. 70, sec. 1.

405. The Mayor and Council of Hagerstown shall have and it is
hereby vested with full power and authority to provide by ordinance for
installing a system of lighting by electricity of any street or highway in
Hagerstown or part thereof in the manner and method commonly known
as a "White Way" system of lighting of said highways and streets; the
materials to be used therefor and the number of lights for each square to
be set forth in said ordinance and also for assessing the costs of any such
work and materials used, in part pro rata upon the property abutting or
binding upon any such street or highway or part thereof, making the same
a lien thereon and for collecting such assessments as other city taxes are
collected.

See secs. 357 and 393.

1916, ch. 70, sec. 2.

406. The Mayor and Council of Hagerstown shall have and it is
hereby vested with full power and authority to provide by general ordi-
nance for installing a system of lighting by electricity of any street, or
highway in Hagerstown or part thereof in the manner and method com-
monly called and known as a "White Way" system without the necessity
of the passage of a special ordinance in the particular case, whenever the
owners of a majority of the front feet of property abutting or binding on
such street or highway or part thereof, shall apply for the same by peti-
tion to the Mayor and Council upon terms and under conditions and with
materials as shall be set forth in said general ordinance, and for the assess-
ment in any such case of the costs of such work and the materials used,
in part pro rata upon all the property abutting or binding on such street
or highway or part thereof making the same a lien thereon; the number
of lights to be placed in any one square to be set forth in said ordinance
and for the collection of such assessments as other city taxes are collected.

1916, ch. 70, sec. 3.

407. Whenever the Mayor and Council shall proceed to exercise the
powers vested in it by Sections 405 and 406 of this sub-title, and shall
provide by special or general ordinance for installing of a system of light-
ing by electricity of any street or highway in Hagerstown or part thereof
in the manner and method commonly called and known as a "White Way"
system of lighting thereof, the costs of installing said White Way System,
as aforesaid upon any such street or highway or part thereof, which shall
devolve upon the Mayor and Council of Hagerstown shall be provided for
in the manner following; that is to say: After the entire costs of install-
ing said White Way System of Lighting any such street or highway or
part thereof which the Mayor and Council shall be obliged to pay, has been
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