EMERSON C. HARRINGTON, GOVERNOR. 243

one thousand dollars; that is to say, that bonds numbered one
and two shall mature one year from their date, bonds num-
bered three and four shall mature two years from their date,
and so on, according to their consecutive numbers, one thousand
dollars shall mature and become payable, so that the last thou-
sand of said bonds shall fall due twenty-five years from the
date thereof. Provided, that if for any reason the commence-
ment of the work of erecting the sewerage system shall be de-
layed beyond January 1st, 1919, then the said "Commissioners
of Hurlock" are authorized and empowered to date all of said
bonds at such period of any year, in which the work of con-
struction shall be started, as may be suitable, and to fix the
maturity of said bonds from one to twenty-five years from
said date in accordance with the scheme in this section set
forth, so that one thousand dollars thereof shall mature in
each year until the whole shall become payable.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That when said bonds shall be
executed, as herein prescribed, the said "Commissioners of
Hurlock" shall advertise the same in at least one newspaper
published in the town of Hurlock, in at least one newspaper
published in the city of Cambridge, and, if they deem it ad-
visable, in one newspaper published in the City of Baltimore,
inviting sealed proposals for the purchase of said bonds or any
part thereof, with the privilege to the said "Commissioners of
Hurlock" to reject any and all bids. The "Commissioners of
Hurlock" aforesaid may advertise the said bonds for such
length of time as in their discretion is adequate notice to the
public, and may offer all of said bonds for sale at the same
time, and may offer them at different intervals in such install-
ments and amounts as they may deem advantageous to the town
in carrying on the work of constructing or acquiring the prop-
erty for which the same are issued. The money arising from
the sale of said bonds shall be kept as a separate fund by the
Town Clerk to be exclusively used for the purposes of this Act,
and all taxes levied and collected, as hereinafter provided, for
the payment of the interest and principal of said bonds shall
be likewise kept as a separate fund by said officer.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted. That the said "Commissioners
of Hurlock" are hereby authorized, empowered and required
to levy annually upon the assessable property of said town a
tax sufficient to pay the interest and principal of said bonds
at the time said interest and principal shall mature and become
payable; the tax hereby authorized being for the special pur-