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payment of the same for the purpose of grading and paving
the streets and roadways of Salisbury and to levy a special tax
for the payment of said bonds/' be and the same is hereby ex-
pressly repealed.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall not
affect or impair any right vested or acquired and existing at
the time of the passage of this Act; provided, that this sec-
tion shall not. be construed to make irrepealable or irrevoca-
ble any right which before the passage of this Act was repeala-
ble or revocable; nor shall this Act impair, discharge or re-
lease any contract, obligation, duty, liability or penalty what-
ever now existing. All suits and actions, both civil and crimi-
nal, pending, or which may hereafter be instituted for causes
of action now existing or offenses already committed against
any law or ordinance repealed by this Act, shall be instituted,
proceeded with and prosecuted to final determination and judg-
ment as if this Act had not been passed. No tax levied or
any proceeding taken for the collection of any such tax or the
enforcement of the payment of the same before the passage
of this Act shall in any manner be affected by the passage of
this Act, and the mode of procedure in any such matter shall
be the same as if this Act had not been passed.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That all laws now en-
forced relating op applicable to the Mayor and Council of
Salisbury and not included in this Act and not inconsistent
with this Act, and all ordinances of the Mayor and Council of
Salisbury now in force and not inconsistent with this Act,
shall be and they are hereby continued until changed or re-
pealed, respectively, by the General Assembly of Maryland or
the Mayor and Council of Salisbury.

SEC. 4, And be it further enacted. That all officers provided
for or named in the charter of Salisbury or any amendments
thereto, as it now stands before the passage of this Act, whether
by election or appointment, shall continue to hold, exercise
and discharge the duties of their respective offices until their
successors shall be duly qualified, and nothing contained in
this Act shall be construed to interfere with the continuity
of the terms or tenure of said officers; nor shall a reappoint-
ment or re-election of any of said officers be necessary in order
to secure the said continuity of their said terms and tenures
of office, unless otherwise provided in this Act.

SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That all the provisions of
chapter 82 of the Acts of the General Assembly of Maryland,
passed at the January session of 1876, entitled "An Act to
preserve and define the harbor at Salisbury and the channel of