LLOYD LOWNDES, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

acts of 1892, and chapter 569 of the acts of 1894, said section
to be numbered 44 A.
SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the tickets to be used at the

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election in said town in May, 1896, shall have printed on them
the words, "For the amendment to the charter" and "Against
the amendment to the charter; " and in order that the citizens
of said town shall be familiar with the question to be submitted,
it shall be and is hereby made the duty of the Mayor of Lona-
coning to have the said proposed amendment published for at
least two weeks previous to the said election in two newspapers-
of general circulation in said town; if upon the return of the
judges of said election it shall be found that a majority of
the votes cast in favor of the amendment hereby proposed, then
the same shall immediately become effective; but if a majority
of the votes cast at said election shall be against the amend-
ment, then the same shall be inoperative and void, said addi-
tional section to read as follows :
44 A. And the said Mayor and Councilmen are hereby author-

Amendment
to be adver-
tised.

ized and empowered to appropriate out of certain moneys now
in their hands, the same being part of the water tax heretofore
levied in said town of Lonaconing, such sum or sums as to the
said Mayor and Counoilmen may seem proper, for the purchase
of such hose, reel or reels, and such other apparatus or equip-
ment for the better protection against fire in said town as the
said Mayor and Councilmen may deem necessary; provided,
however, that a sum sufficient to pay the rental of said fire
hydrants up to July, 1896, shall first be set aside out of said
moneys, and only the excess or such portion thereof as to the
Mayor and Councilmen may seem- necessary shall be appropri-
ated for said apparatus.

Purchase of
fire appara-
tus.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.
Approved April 2d, 1896.

Effective.