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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

"Hagerstown," be and the same are hereby enacted and

added to said section one hundred and seventy-one A of

article twenty two of the Code of Public Local Laws, title

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

To levy

171 B. The mayor and council of Hagerstown shall have

tax to
secure

and are hereby vested with power and authority to contract

water

with any water company for the purpose of securing water

for the use of the citizens of the town and for use in case of

fire, and the mayor and council shall have and are hereby

vested with power and authority to levy taxes, in addition

to the amount now authorized by law, sufficient to meet the

requirement of any contract executed under the provisions

of this section.

171 C. The mayor and council of Hagerstown shall have

Use of

and are hereby vested with power and authority to grant

streets to
railway

the use of the streets and highways of the town unto any

company

street railway company, the motive power whereof shall be

either horses or electricity and prescribe the terms and con-

ditions upon which such use shall be allowed.

171 D. The mayor and council of Hagerstown shall have

and are hereby vested with power and authority to cause to

To invest
balance of

be invested in bonds of Hagerstown, or in other approved

sanitary

security the balance now in the treasury of said town

account

credited to the sanitary accouut and from time to time to

reinvest the same together with any interest accruing

thereon and to credit all proceeds arising therefrom to said

" Sanitary Account," until the same shall be needed for the

purposes for which the sum now credited to said sanitary

account, was originally levied.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect

Effective

from the date of its passage.

Approved March 16th, 1892.

CHAPTER 127.

AN ACT to declare the sanction of the General Assembly of

Maryland to certain bequests and devises contained in

the last will and testament and in the codicils thereto of

Susanna Warfield, deceased.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Sanction to

Maryland, That the sanction of the General Assembly of

bequests

Maryland be and the same is hereby given to the following

devises "and bequests and each of them contained in the

last will and testament and certain codicils thereto of