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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Levy special

required from time to time, to levy such special

taxes.

taxes upon the assessable and taxable property of

said city as may be necessary to meet the interest

on said bonds and to pay the principal thereof at

maturity, or when and to such extent as the said

Mayor and City Council may determine.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That said Mayor and

City Council of Cumberland be and are hereby

authorized and empowered at the next election

for members of the city council, or by special

Submit to

election, as they may deem most proper, to submit

legal voters.

to the legal voters of said city the question as to

whether or not the purchase of real estate and

issue of bonds herein provided for shall be made ;

and said Mayor and City Council are hereby

authorized and empowered to provide by ordi-

nance for the submission of such question, and

for giving notice to the voters of said city of such

submission, and to direct by such ordinance what

words upon any ballot shall constitute a vote for

or against said proposition, and to provide for

counting and returning said vote, and if two-

How ratified.

thirds of the votes cast upon said question are in

favor of such purchase and issue of bonds, then

said Mayor and City Council shall have power, in

their discretion (subject to the provisions of the

next succeeding section of this act), to proceed to

exercise the powers vested in them by this act ;

but if less than two-thirds of the votes cast upon

said question are in favor of said proposition, then

said Mayor and City Council shall not exercise

any of the powers provided for in this act.

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That if at the election

provided for in the last preceding section two-

thirds of the votes cast upon said question are in

favor of making the purchase and issuing the

bonds hereinbefore mentioned, then said Mayor

and City Council, before they proceed to make

any purchase or issue any bonds under this act,

shall take from said Thomas H. Paul and J. T. H.

Take bond.

Paul, a bond, with approved securities, as said

Mayor and City Council may deem proper, con-

ditioned that when said city shall have purchased

and paid for the ground to be so purchased by it,

they, the said Thomas H. Paul and J. T. H. Paul,