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covenants and agreements and to perform its and their duties under
this sub-title.

1933 (Special Sess. ), ch. 30, sec. 11.

19. The powers conferred by this sub-title shall be in addition and
supplemental to the powers conferred by any other law, and bonds, interim
certificates or other obligations may be issued hereunder for any project
notwithstanding that any other law may provide for the issuance of bonds,
interim certificates or other obligations for like purpose and without
regard to the requirements, restrictions or other provisions contained in
any other law. Bonds may be issued under this sub-title notwithstanding
any debt or other limitation prescribed by any other law, and the mode
and method of procedure for issuance of bonds under this sub-title need
not conform to the provisions of any other law. Any proceedings hereto-
fore taken under any other law by any municipality relating to the
subject matter of this sub-title may be continued under such other law or
under this sub-title, or at the option of the governing body may be dis-
continued and new proceedings instituted under this subtitle. Except
in pursuance of any contract or agreement theretofore entered into by and
between any municipality and any Federal agency, no municipality shall
borrow any money or issue any bonds pursuant to the provisions of this
sub-title after January 17 1936. It is the purpose of this sub-title to
enable -municipalities to secure the benefits of the National Industrial
Recovery Act, to encourage public works, to reduce unemployment and
thereby to assist in the national recovery and promote the public welfare,
and to these ends municipalities shall have power to do all things necessary
or convenient to carry out said purpose in addition to the express powers
conferred in this sub-title; this sub-title is remedial in nature and the
powers hereby granted shall be liberally construed.

1933 (Special Sess. ), ch. 30. sec. 11A. 1935, ch. 40.

20. None of the provisions of this sub-title shall apply to Somerset,
Garrett, Caroline, Carroll and Frederick Counties, and that the County
Commissioners of said Counties and municipal corporations located there-
in shall have none of the powers provided for in this sub-title, except that
in the town of Crisfield, Somerset County, the corporation officials shall
have the power to borrow under the provisions of this sub-title any sum
not in excess of thirty-five thousand dollars ($35, 000. 00). None of the
provisions of this sub-title shall apply to any incorporated town in Talbot
County and said incorporated towns located therein shall have none of
the powers provided for in this sub-title.

1933 (Special Sess. ), ch. 30, sec. 12.

21. If any one or more sections, clauses, sentences, or parts of this
sub-title shall for any reason be questioned in any court, and shall be
adjudged unconstitutional or invalid, such judgment shall not affect,
impair or invalidate the remaining provisions thereof but shall be con-