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794 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 436
rowing of such sum or sums of money as the Court may
deem adequate and proper to meet the emergency, there-
upon the said Mayor and City Council shall be authorized
to borrow the same and to pledge the credit of the City to
the amount specified by the Court in its Order. There shall
be no appeal from the finding of the Circuit Court.
The above provisions are not to be deemed as affecting
in any way the validity of any loans heretofore made to the
Mayor and Councilmen of Frostburg by virtue of the pro-
visions of Section 145 of Chapter 31 of the Acts of the
General Assembly of Maryland of 1922, but any loans here-
tofore made by the said Mayor and Councilmen of Frost-
burg and still remaining unpaid may be renewed or paid
off in any of the manners herein provided.
If the Mayor or any Councilman or any City employee
shall violate any of the provisions of this section, he or
they shall, upon trial and conviction, be sentenced to pay
a fine of not exceeding One Thousand Dollars ($1, 000. 00),
or be sentenced to confinement in the Allegany County Jail
for not more than six months, or be both fined and impris-
oned, in the discretion of the Court.
SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act is an
emergency law necessary for the preservation of the health
and general welfare of the residents of the City of Frost-
burg, and three-fifths of the members of each House of the
General Assembly concurring therein, by yea and nay vote,
the same shall be effective from the date of its passage.
Approved April 21, 1933.
CHAPTER 436.
AN ACT to prohibit the County Commissioners of Gar-
rett County from expending for road purposes the funds
about to be received from the present county road levy
and to provide that said funds shall go into and become
part of the general funds of said county and be used for
reducing the tax levy to be made by said County Com-
missioners in April of 1933.
WHEREAS, The County Commissioners of Garrett County
did in April, 1932, levy a tax upon the assessable property
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