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SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.

Approved April 8, 1910.

CHAPTER 531.

AN ACT to authorize the Mayor and Commissioners of West-
ernport, in Allegany County, to borrow money and to issue
bonds for a sum not exceeding one hundred thousand dol-
lars ($100,000), for the purpose of providing payment for
the improvement and extension of the water system of said
town, and for the purpose of providing sewers, paving streets,
and for such other permanent improvements as may be found
necessary; provided that before such loan has been con-
tracted and any of such bonds issued, such improvements
and the approximate amount to be expended therefor shall
receive the assent of a majority of the voters of said town
Westernport.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land) That the Mayor and Commissioners of Westernport, in
Allegany County, a municipal corporation, is hereby author-
ized and empowered to borrow on the faith and credit of the
said corporation a sum of money not to exceed one hundred
thousand dollars ($100,000), and to issue bonds therefor under
the conditions hereinafter set forth.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the said the Mayor and
Commissioners of Westernport is hereby authorized and em-
powered at any time or times hereafter to enact an ordinance
or ordinances setting out the purpose or purposes for which
the money provided under this Act shall be applied, and the
approximate cost of each item of expenditure, and to submit
the same to the qualified voters of said town of Westernport,
at an election or elections, shall in all particulars not herein
provided for, be held under the supervision and direction of
the said the Mayor and Commissioners of Westernport, and in
the manner in which the general elections of the said town are
held, and this Act shall not be effective unless a majority of
the votes cast at such an election shall declare the assent of the
voters to the borrowing of said money and the issuing of said
bonds mentioned in said ordinance, and to the purposes to
which said money shall be applied.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the ordinance or ordi-
nances mentioned ill Section two of this Act shall clearly set
forth the amount of the bonds which the Mayor and Commis-
sioners of Westernport desire to issue, a general description