4850 AETICLE 22.

shall be of any force or validity unless it shall reveive a majority of all
votes cast at such election.

1906, ch. 315, sec. 241-O.

511. The burgess and commissioners of Hancock shall have and are
hereby vested with power and authority to grant the use of the streets,
highways and alleys of the town unto any street railway, the motive power
whereof shall be either steam or electricity, and prescribe the terms and
conditions upon which such shall be allowed.

1906, ch. 315, sec. 241P.

512. All ordinances heretofore passed by the burgess and commis-
sioners and now in force not in conflict with the provisions of this sub-
title of this Article are continued in force until the same are repealed or
modified.*

1929, ch. 221, sec. 241S.

513. The Burgess and Commissioners are hereby authorized and em-
powered to provide by ordinance for selling and conveying any and all
parcels of real estate within the corporate limits of said town, owned by
said town, and not needed for the purposes of said town, in the opinion
of the Burgess and Commissioners, and all ordinances for the sale of said
real estate shall provide for submitting the question of said sale to the
qualified voters of said town, at some regular election for the election of
the Burgess and Commissioners; and before any such ordinance shall be
submitted to the qualified voters of the town at least four weeks public no-
tice shall be given by handbills posted in at least fifteen conspicuous places
in the town of the intention to submit said ordinance to the qualified voters
of said town, said notice shall state further, the ordinance in full, and no
ordinance for the sale of real estate as hereinbefore provided, shall be of
any force or validity unless it shall receive a majority of all votes cast at
such election. The proceeds derived from the sale of the real estate as
aforesaid, shall be deposited by the Treasurer of said Town in the name
of "The Burgess and Commissioners of Hancock, Maryland," and paid
out only when duly authorized by an ordinance of the Burgess and Com-
missioners of said town.

WATEE AND SEWERS.+

1910, ch. 33, sec. 1 (p. 1184).

514. The Burgess and Commissioners of Hancock is hereby author-
ized and empowered to construct, operate and maintain a system of water-
works and sewers for the use and benefit of the inhabitants of the town
of Hancock, in Washington County, and the immediate vicinity thereof,

*Sec. 2, ch. 315, 1906, repealed all Acts inconsistent therewith.

+Secs. 2, 3, 4 and 12 of ch. 33, 1910, provided for issuing $30,000 of bonds and for
submitting Act to voters. The Act was approved.