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than five dollars, nor more than two hundred dollars, and in
default of payment of such fine to be imprisoned not less than
ten days and not more than sixty days.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.

Approved April 8, 1910.

CHAPTER 528.

AN ACT to authorize and empower the Mayor and Council of
Hagerstown, Maryland, to borrow the sum of fifty thousand
dollars ($50,000) by the issue and sale of bonds, the pro-
ceeds therefrom to be used for the purchase and improve-
ment of lands to be used for the purpose of a public park.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the Mayor and Council of Hagerstown, Maryland, be
and it is hereby authorized and empowered to borrow a sum
of money not exceeding fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) on the
faith and credit of the town, as hereinafter provided, which
shall be known and designated as Series 1 of Park Bonds, and
the money arising from their sale shall be applied and used
exclusively for the purchase of lands to be used for park pur-
poses and the improvements and maintenance thereof.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the said Mayor and Council
of Hagerstown, Maryland, be and it is hereby authorized and
empowered to purchase said park within or without the cor-
porate limits of the town of Hagerstown, as in its judgment
it may deem best, the same, if without the corporate limits of
the said town of Hagerstown, to be as near the corporate limits
as possible, with full power to the said Mayor and Council to
use its best judgment in the selection of the said land for park
purposes.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That to provide for borrowing the
money as hereinbefore authorized, the Mayor and Council is
hereby enpowered to issue bonds in such denominations as to
it may seem best, said bonds to be signed by the Mayor and
attested by the clerk of the Mayor and Council, with the seal
of the town attached, and to bear interest at the rate of four
per cent. (4%) per annum, on the first day of January and July
of each year.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That to provide for the payment
of the bonds as hereinbefore authorized as the same shall ma-
ture, and for the payment of the annual interest thereon, there
shall be levied by the Mayor and Council annually for ten years