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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

said town and contract with any company, corporation or

individual for a term not exceeding five years at a time,

which taxes shall be levied and collected as other town

taxes are now collected, which fund when collected, less

costs of collection, shall be applied to no other purpose.

Provided, tliat in making said contract they shall con-

Proviso

tract for the best light within the means provided ; that any

contract made shall provide for the sufficient lighting of all

streets in the town necessary for the comfort and conve-

nience of its inhabitants, and shall bind any company, cor-

poration or individual with whom they may contract to

keep and maintain the light by such a contract as shall in-

sure a proper lighting of the streets and the payment of any

annual sum agreed upon shall be contingent upon a faithful

performance of the contract by the party contracted with.

SEC. 246 E. That the mayor and city council may in

May
require

their discretion require a bond for the faithful performance

bond

of any contract for light and water, or either, in such pen-

alty as they, the mayor and city council, may prescribe.

SEC. 246 F. That this act shall not be construed to

Not to
authorize

authorize the actual levy of the additional taxes herein

levy

before authorized until the water or light or both are in a

condition to be furnished.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the sense of the

people of the town of Laurel in respect to making the con-

Submitting
to the

tracts for the introduction of water and light in said town

qualified
voters

and the levying of the additional taxes herein authorized

to be taken by submitting the questions to the qualified

voters of said town at the regular election for mayor and

councilman, to be held on the first Monday in April in the

year eighteen hundred and ninety-two, and at such election

the qualified voters possessing the qualifications required

by section one hundred and ninety-three, be and they are

hereby authorized to cast a ballot '' for light " or a ballot

"against light," and a ballot "for water" or a ballot

"against water," and if the majority of votes cast on the

proposition be "for light," the mayor and city couucil of

Laurel shall have the power granted by section 246 D, and

if the majority of votes cast on the proposition be "for

water," the mayor and city council of Laurel shall have all

the powers granted by section 246 C, and said sections

shall be in full force and effect ; and the mayor and city

council shall publicly declare and announce the result of

such election within three days thereafter.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That at said election to be held

on the first Monday in April in the present year the qualified