96 ARTICLE 1.

1890, ch. 130, sec. 18.

267. The said Mayor and Councilmen are hereby required to keep an
accurate account of their receipts and disbursements in conducting said
water-works, and if at the end of any fiscal year, there shall remain in
their hands a surplus of receipts after paying all expenses, such surplus
shall be be paid into the treasury of said town for the purposes of this Act,
and if there shall in any year or years be a deficiency or failure of receipts
to meet expenses; the Mayor and Councilmen of said town are hereby
authorized, directed and required to levy a special tax not exceeding fifteen
cents on one hundred dollars as other taxes are now levied upon the assess-
able property of said town, and to collect the same as other taxes are now
collected for the purpose of meeting such a contingency.

1890, ch. 130, sec. 19.

268. It shall be the duty of the Mayor and Councilmen of Frostburg,
at the next regular election for Mayor and Councilmen succeeding the
passage of this Act, to submit to the qualified voters of said town the ques-
tion as to whether or not water-works shall be purchased or constructed
for said town under this Act, and at such election the ballots cast upon
said question shall have the words "For water-works" or "Against water-
works" as the voters shall desire, and if a majority of the votes cast upon
said question shall be "For water-works," then the Mayor and Councilmen
of said town shall proceed without delay, to execute the powers vested in
them by the provisions of this Act, but if a majority of the votes cast upon
this said question shall be "Against water-works" then the said Mayor and
Councilmen shall not execute any of the powers vested in them by this
Act; and it shall be the duty of the said Mayor and Councilmen to give
the usual notice of the time and place of the said election; and the ballots
provided for in this Act shall be deposited in a separate box specially pro-
vided for the same, and at least ten days before said election is held they
shall cause this Act to be published in some newspaper printed in said
town.

1890, ch. 130, sec. 20.

269. If this Act shall not become a law until it is too late to give the
notice provided for in the preceding section, it shall be the duty of the
Mayor and Councilmen of Frostburg to call a special election on or before
the first Monday in June, eighteen hundred and ninety, at which the ques-
tion as to whether or not water-works shall be purchased or constructed,
shall be submitted to the qualified voters of said town as hereinbefore
provided for.

1929, ch. 345, sec. 1.

270. The Mayor and Councilmen of Frostburg are hereby authorized
and empowered to issue "Water Improvement Bonds of 1929" to the
amount of Fifty Thousand Dollars ($50,000.00), payable at the end of
forty years from the date of issue, and to sell the same; said bonds to be-