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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

by the clerk to the mayor and council, and the bond of the

tax collector shall be responsible for the safe keeping by the

said tax collector of said bouds and the proceeds thereof,

the tax collector shall sell said bonds at public auction at

such times, and in such amounts as the mayor and council

shall order, he shall transfer and deliver the same as sold to

the purchaser and receive the money therefor and shall

report under oath to the mayor and council his proceedings,

in the premises with the names, of the persons to whom said

bonds have been transferred, together with the amounts.

received by him from said sales ; said money shall be credited

on the books of the tax collector to the '' Town Improvement

Fund " and paid out by him for the purpose named in sec-

tion 205 A, of this act for which it is received and in the

manner provided ; provided, however, that sections 205 A,

205 B, 205 C, 205 D, and 205 E of this act, and the provisions

of this act shall not be in force and effect, unless the issue

of bonds authorized by an act of Assembly passed at this

present January session of the General Assembly of Mary-

land entitled an act to repeal sections 2ul, 202, 203, 204,

and 205 of article twenty-two of the Code of Public Local

Laws, entitled "Washington County," sub-title "Hagers-

town," and to re-enact the same with amendments, be

adjudged, decided, and declared invalid and illegal by the

Circuit Court for Washington County, or the Court of

Appeals of the State of Maryland, and unless, further, a.

majority of the votes cast at an election held in Hagerstown

on the 28th, day of March, A. D. 1892, shall be cast " For

the drainage and street repair fund."

SEC. 205 B. The mayor and council shall cause to be kept

a careful register of the bonds so issued and the transfer

To keep
Register.

thereof, and as the same are called in and paid off, they shall

be cancelled and a record of the cancellation by numbers,

amounts and names of the last holder of said bonds shall be

made and entered upon the books in which said bonds are-

registered.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect

Effective

from the date of its passage.

Approved April 7th, 1892.