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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Chapter 58.

AN ACT to repeal the act of the General Assembly

of Maryland, passed at the January session eighteen

hundred and seventy-eight, chapter sixty, entitled

" An act to repeal sections one hundred and nine to

one hundred and forty-three, inclusive, of article

twenty-one of the Code of Public Local Laws, en-

titled Washington county," sub-titled "Hagers-

town," and to enact the following in lieu thereof,

in amending and revising the charter of Hagers-

town, and in providing for the government thereof.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly

of Maryland, That the act of the General Assembly

of Maryland, passed at the January session eighteen

Repealed and

hundred and seventy-eight, chapter sixty, and the sec-

enacted in lieu

tions therein contained from one hundred and nine to

thereof.

one hundred and forty-three, inclusive, providing for

the government of Hagerstown, be and the same are

hereby repealed, and the following enacted in lieu

thereof:

SEC. 109. The inhabitants of Hagerstown, in Wash-

ington county, Maryland, are hereby created a corpor-

Credited a cor-

ation by the name of "The Mayor and Council of

poration.

Hagerstown," and by that name shall have perpetual

succession; may sue and be sued; may have and use

a common seal, and possess such other incidents and

powers as attach by law to a municipal corporation,

and may purchase and hold real, personal and mixed

property for the benefit of said corporation; provided,

however, that the mayor and council shall not pur-

chase or acquire any real estate, unless the said mayor

Provide by
ordinance.

and council shall first provide by ordinance for said

purchase, and the mode and manner of payment

therefor; and all ordinances for the purchase of real

estate shall provide for submitting the question of

said purchase to the qualified voters of the town at

some regular election, for the election of councilmen

of said town; and before any such ordinance shall be

Notice to be

submitted to the qualified voters of the town, at least

published.

four weeks' public notice shall be given, by publication

in one or more newspapers of the town, of an inten-

tion to submit said ordinance to the qualified voters of