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for the immediate preservation of the public health and
safety and, being passed by a yea and nay vote supported
by three-fifths of all the members fleeted to each of the
two Houses of the General Assembly, the same shall take
effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 21, 1933.

CHAPTER 493.

AN ACT to repeal Section 224 of Article 21 of the Code of
Public Local Laws of Maryland, title "Talbot County",
sub-title "Easton", as amended by Chapter 476 of the
Acts of the General Assembly of 1931, and to re-enact
the same with amendments.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Section 224 of Article 21 of the Code of
Public Local Laws of Maryland, title "Talbot County", sub-
title "Easton", as amended by Chapter 476 of the Acts of
the General Assembly of 1931, be, and the same is repealed
and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

SEC. 224. The said Easton Utilities Commission shall
be and is hereby directed and required to apply all the wa-
ter rents and other revenues which may be derived from
the water works and the revenue from the sewers, electric
plant, gas plant and any other utility or utilities, if any
there be, to pay the expenses of properly keeping up and
operating said systems or plants, respectively, as directed
by this Act, and shall, out of the gross revenue of such of
the said municipally owned revenue producing utilities
upon which there be a bonded indebtedness, pay over to the
Mayor and Council of Easton before the same shall become
due and payable such sum or sums as may, respectively, be
required for the payment of interest and for the redemp-
tion of the bonds bearing against each system or utility,
which payments are to be continued through such period
or periods as there may be outstanding bonds bearing
against such system or utility; and if at any time the reve-
nues shall be insufficient, as may be determined by the said
Easton Utilities Commission, for conducting and operating
the said water works, sewerage system or electric plant,
gas plant or other utilities, then said Easton Utilities Com-