WICOMICO COUNTY. 5141

1929, ch. 27, sec. 14.

379. Any employee or agent of said authorities shall have the right

of entry, at all reasonable hours, upon any private premises and into
any building within their jurisdiction, while in the pursuit of his official
duties; and any restraint or hindrance offered to such entry, by an owner
or tenant or agent of said owner or tenant shall be a misdemeanor pun-
ishable under Section 381.

1929, oh. 27, sec. 15.

380. Said authorities shall have full power and authority to enter into
any contracts or agreements with other municipal authorities, or with
county, State or Federal authorities, with respect to obtaining water
supply sources, or with respect to any other matter necessary or advisable
for the proper or economical construction, establishment, maintenance or

operation of a water supply system.

1929, ch. 27, sec. 16.

381. Every act or omission designated as a misdemeanor in this Act,
unless otherwise stated, shall be punishable before any Justice of the
Peace or the Circuit Court of Wicomico County within which such offense
is committed, and action shall be brought by warrant or inditcment upon

the oath or information of any municipal official, or any agent or munici-
pal authorities, and the offender shall, upon conviction, be subject to a
fine not exceeding $100.00 or 30 days in the county jail, or both, in the
discretion of the Court. Where such act or omission is of a continuing
nature, and is persisted in in violation of the provisions of this Act or

of any rule or regulation formulated thereunder, a conviction for one

offense shall not be a bar to a conviction for a continuation of such offense
subsequent to the first or any succeeding conviction.

1929, ch. 27, sec. 17.

382. The said authorities before issuing bonds for any of said improve-

ments, shall first, at a special or regular election, submit to the voters
of Sharptown the question whether or not the said bonds shall be issued,
and upon the ballots to be used at said election there shall be printed or
written the words "For Water Supply Bonds" and "Against Water Sup-
ply Bonds," and if a majority of the votes cast upon said question shall
be "For Water Supply Bonds" then the said authorities shall exercise the
power vested in them by this Act and shall issue the bonds authorized
"by this Act; but if a majority of the votes cast upon said question shall
be "Against Water Supply Bonds," the power shall not be exercised or
the bonds issued, but the said authorities, however, shall have the power
to submit the question at such succeeding regular municipal elections
until a majority of the votes cast on said question shall be "For Water
Supply Bonds," at which time they shall exercise the power conferred
by the Act, and issue the bonds authorized by said Act.*

*The proposition has been submitted once and rejected by the voters.