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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 65.

AN ACT to repeal section one hundred and ninety one of

Article twenty two of the Code of Public Local Laws en-

titled "Washington County," sub -title "Hagerstown,"

and to re-enact and amend the same.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Maryland, That section one hundred and ninety-one of

Repealed

Article twenty-two of the Code of Public Local Laws, entitled

"Washington County," sub-title "Hagerstown," be and the

same is hereby repealed and re-enacted so as to read as fol-

lows.

191. The said board of street Commissioners shall have

control of the lighting of the town, with power to provide

Lighting

the material, employ lighters and other necessary labor, and

town

to make all needful provisions therefor, and to make such

changes or alterations as from time to time they may deem

proper or necessary, with the power to contract with any

person, corporation or association for such lighting ; pro-

vided, that the cost under any such contract or lighting shall

not exceed the sum of six thousand dollars for any one year

nor shall such contract be made for a period exceeding ten

years ; and to provide the sum of money necessary to pay

the cost or charge under any such contract or lighting, the

mayor and council are hereby authorized and required, an-

Authorized

nually to levy on the assessable property of the town ten

to levy

cents on every one hundred dollars worth of assessable prop-

erty and the sums of money collected upon said levy shall

constitute a separate fund to be kept by the collector of

taxes, and to be applied to the payment of such cost or

charge under said contract or lighting and to and for no

other use or purpose ? said fund to be placed and drawn

out by said board of street Commissioners as directed by

section 167 of said charter ; and in case the said levy should

not be sufficient to pay the cost of such contract or lighting,

the mayor and council is hereby authorized and required

to levy and appropriate, of the thirty cents of tax authorized

by section 195 and not otherwise specifically appropriated

by said section, as much thereof as may be necessary for the

purpose of raising the amount to be paid under any such

contract or lighting, and the said sum of money so collected

from said tax as aforesaid, appropriated or levied with the

sums received from pro rata apportionment to the same, as

provided by section 166, shall constitute a separate fund to

be kept, applied and drawn in the same manner and form as

the sums collected from the said taxes of ten cents.