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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

election for Mayor and Common Council to be held

on the first Monday of May, in the year eighteen

hundred and eighty-two; and at such election the

qualified voters then residing within the corporate

limits of said city, be and they are hereby author-

ized to cast a ballot "For the contract for water

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works" or a ballot "Against the contract for water

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works," and that the result of such election shall be

certified in the usual manner of certifying corporate

elections to the Mayor and Common Council of

Westminster, and if the majority of the votes cast

be " For the contract for water works," the said

Mayor and Common Council shall be forthwith

authorized and empowered to carry out and give

effect to the terms and provisions of this act in re-

spect to a contract with a joint stock water com-

pany as hereinbefore provided, and further, that

after the said Mayor and Common Council of West-

minster shall have entered into said contract, they

When tax

shall no longer be authorized to levy the tax con-

eases

templated by sub-section two of the act of the

General Assembly of Maryland, passed at the

January session, eighteen hundred and seventy-six,

chapter eighty-eight, entitled "An act to repeal sec-

tion one hundred and fifteen of chapter three hun-

dred and forty-three of the acts of eighteen hundred

and seventy-four, relating to the city of Westmin-

ster, in Carroll county, and to re-enact the same

with amendments.

Approved May 3, 1882.