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of water pipes and mains, pumping stations and reservoirs of
water within the limits of the town of Sudlersville; and no firm,
corporation, individual or group of individuals shall use any
street, lane, alley or thoroughfare or public land of said town
for any water pipes, mains, or reservoirs without the consent of
the Commissioners of Sudlersville first had and obtained by ordi-
nance for that purpose passed and approved, and any water
mains or pipes, pumping stations and reservoirs hereafter placed
upon, in or under any of the streets, lanes, alleys, thoroughfares
or public land of said town without the consent of the Com-
missioners of Sudlersville shall be deemed a nuisance.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That all laws or part of
laws, either local or general, inconsistent herewith are hereby
repealed, and that this Act shall take effect from the first day
of June, Nineteen Hundred and Eighteen.

Approved April 10th, 1918.

CHAPTER 193.

AN ACT to repeal Sections 313, 334, 338 and 340 of Article
11 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland, title
"Frederick County," sub-title "Thurmont," and to re-enact
the same with amendments, and to add an additional Section
to be known as Section 339a.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly Off Mary-
land, That Sections 313, 334, 338 and 340 of Article 11 of the
Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland, title "Frederick:
County," sub-title "Thurmont," be and the same are hereby
repealed and re-enacted so as to read as follows, and an addi-
tional Section to be added thereto to be known as Section 339a.

Section 313. The male citizens of said village of the age of
twenty-one years and upwards, being citizens of the United
States, who shall have resided in said village for and during
the space of six months preceding shall elect by ballot on the
fourth Monday in April, 1918, at the usual place of holding
elections, in said village, five Commissioners, one of whom
shall be designated as president and who shall be elected for
one year; two commissioners to be elected for a term of two
years, one of whom shall be designated and voted for as Sec-
retary to the Board of Commissioners, and two commissioners
who shall be elected for a period of one year, and annually