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CHAP. 20.

STATE OF MARYLAND.

No. 1 and No. 2, respectively. Bond No. 1 of series A shall
fall due sixteen years after the date of its issue ; bond No. 2,
series A, seventeen years after the date of its issue, and one
bond on each succeeding year thereafter, in the order as above

Sold at public
auction.

designated. They shall be sold at public sale to the highest
bidder but no bond shall be sold for less than its par value.
They shall be exempt from municipal and county taxation,
and shall have printed on them a reference to the Act of
Assembly authorizing their issue.

Election to
be held.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That at the town election to be
held in Williamsport next succeeding the passage of this Act,
a vote shall be taken by the legal and qualified voters of the
said town of Williamsport, whether or not the bond issue
herein provided for shall be made, which election shall be
held under the provisions of law now governing elections in
said town, and for the purpose of taking said vote at said
election there shall be printed on the ballot to be used at said
election, in one column, the words "For the Bond Issue," and
in another column the words ''Against the Bond Issue," and
if a majority of the legally qualified voters shall vote in favor
of said bond issue, then the said Burgess and Commissioners
shall issue said bonds, and provide for the supplementing,
enlarging and increasing of and adding to the said electric
light plant and system now owned and operated by the said
town, but if the majority of the legally qualified voters of the
said town shall vote against the issue of the said bonds then
this Act shall be null and void. The judges of election at
said election shall at the close of the polls on said election day

Votes to be
counted and
certificate of
same made.

count up the votes and make a certificate of the same in the
usual form and forward the said certificate and return the
ballots to the clerk of the Court for said Washington county,
and upon receipt by said clerk of said certificate and ballots
he shall make proclamation of the result by publication in
one or more newspapers (not exceeding two) published in said
Washington county.
SEC. 3. Be it enacted, That if the result of the said election

Proceeds of
sale of bonds
to be turned
over to
treasurer of
the Board of
Supervisors.

shall be in favor of the bond issue then all the proceeds from
the sale of the said bonds shall be turned over to the treasurer
of the Board of Supervisors holding office under the pro-
visions of chapter 27 of the Acts of the General Assembly
of Maryland, passed at its January session, A. D. 1898,
entitled an act to authorize and empower the Burgess and
Commissioners of Williamsport, Washington county, Maryland,
to borrow money on the credit of said town fur the purpose
of constructing water works and an electric light, heat and
power plant or either of them in said town, and to issue bonds
for the payment of the same and to levy on the assessable