WM. PRESTON LANE, JR., GOVERNOR. 779

August each year pay the sum of One Thousand Dollars
($1,000.00) to the Treasurer of the following fire companies:
Goodwill Fire Company, Inc., Centreville; Sudlersville Fire
Company; Church Hill Community Fire Company; Queens-
town Volunteer Fire Company; Five Hundred Dollars
($500.00) to the Queen Anne Hillsboro Fire Company, and
One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00) to the Stevensville Volun-
teer Fire Department, Inc.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect June 1, 1947.

Approved April 16, 1947.

CHAPTER 454.
(House Bill 716)

AN ACT to amend Chapter 243 of the Acts of the General
Assembly of Maryland, passed at its January Session in the
year 1935, by adding thereto one section to be known as
Section 18A, said section to follow immediately after Sec-
tion 18 of said Act and to authorize the President and Com-
missioners of North East to borrow, from time to time,
subject in each instance to approval by the qualified voters
of North East, a sum or sums of money not to exceed in
the aggregate Three Hundred Thousand Dollars ($300,-
000.00), and to evidence said borrowing by the issuance
and sale of its general obligation coupon bonds, said bonds
to be issued in the manner prescribed by said Chapter 243
of the Acts of 1935, with certain exceptions, and to be pay-
able from the same taxes, benefit assessments and other
charges authorized by said Act to be levied, the money
realized from said borrowing to be used for completing the
installation of water and sewer systems in said town and
the construction of a sewage disposal plant.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Chapter 243 of the Acts of the General Assembly
of Maryland, passed at its January Session in the year 1935,
be and the same is hereby amended by adding thereto one
section to be known as Section 18A, to follow immediately
after Section 18 of said Act and to provide as follows:

18A. That, in addition to the authority conferred on the
President and Commissioners of North East by Section 1
above to borrow money and issue bonds therefor in order to