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CHAP. 788
Submitted to
the voters of
the con-
gressional
district.
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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the question of whether or not the County Com-
missioners of Garrett county shall issue bonds to an amount
not exceeding seventy-five thousand dollars, for the purpose
of purchasing lots and furnishing and erecting and building
a court house at Oakland, the county seat of said county,
shall be submitted to the registered, qualified voters at the
Congressional election to be held on the first Tuesday after
the first Monday of November in the year 1906, the said
ticket to be voted to be printed on the Congressional ballot
to be used at said election; the ballot to be used in said
election shall have printed on them "For the Issue of
Bonds " or "Against the Issue of Bonds," and shall be
counted and returned as other election returns are counted
and made.
SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That if it shall be found by the
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Duty of county
commis-
sioners.
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return of said judges of election that a majority of the votes
cast in said county are for the issue of said bonds, then it
shall be the duty of the County Commissioners of Garrett
county within nine months after said election to issue said
bonds to an amount not exceeding seventy-five thousand
dollars, in sums not less than one hundred nor more than
one thousand dollars, and shall bear interest not to exceed
five per centum per annum, and within nine months after
said election, if it shall be decided by the ballots cast at said
election. If it be decided by ballots cast that said bonds shall
be issued, the said County Commissioners shall issue bonds,
which bonds shall be signed by the president of the board
of County Commissioners and to be, countersigned by the
clerk of said board; and the said bonds shall be made pay-
able in the following manner, that is to say: Five thousand
dollars each and every year, beginning with year 1909, and
they shall have coupons attached for the semi-annual inter-
est, payable respectively on the first day of February and
the first day of August in each year; the said bonds shall
be dated as the first day of August, 1907, and shall be for-
ever exempt from all taxation for any purpose for State pur-
poses and shall have printed on them a reference to the Act
authorizing the issue thereof.
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