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fied person to fill said vacancy; and all cases of contested
election of said elected officers shall be decided by the Judges
of the Circuit Court for Prince George's County in the man-
ner provided by the General Election Laws and pending any
contest actually filed, and until the said Court shall decide
who is legally elected, the officer or officers whose election
is contested if he or she is holding the office by virtue of a
previous election shall continue to hold the office until the
contested election is decided, and until their successors shall
be legally elected and qualified.

55A. (Continuance in Office.) If the citizens of said town
at any time neglect to hold an election at the time fixed by
this charter, the power of electing town officers shall not
cease, but shall continue and the officers for the time being
shall continue in office until the election and qualification
of their successors, but in such case the Town Council are
hereby directed to call an election as soon as practicable
after the regular election date.

56. (Road Tax.) The Board of County Commissioners of
Prince George's County shall pay or cause to be paid annu-
ally to the Mayor and Town Council of Bladensburg three-
fourths (3/4) of the full amount of the road and bridge tax
levied and collected each fiscal year from property taxed
for such purposes within the limits of the Town of Bladens-
burg as created by this charter. Any portion of said three-
fourths (3/4) of said road and bridge tax collected by said
County Commissioners after the fiscal year for which the
same was levied, shall be accounted for and paid over to the
said Mayor and Town Council, from time to time, in the year
in which the same shall be collected. The money so received
by the said Mayor and Town Council shall be used by it for
the repair and improvement of the streets, avenues, roads
and sidewalks within the corporate limits of the Town of
Bladensburg.

57. (Levy and Collection of Taxes.) (1) Levy and col-
lection of taxes shall be in accordance with the provisions
of Sections 72-90W, inclusive, of Article 81 of the Annotated
Code of Maryland (1943 Supplement). (2) The Mayor and
Town Council are authorized and empowered to levy annu-
ally such taxes upon the assessable property within said cor-
poration as they deem necessary provided that the amount
of taxes levied for any one year shall not exceed 50 cents on
the one hundred dollars which taxes shall be collected by
the Town Treasurer. The levy shall be made by ordinance
on or before the thirty-first day of May of each year, and