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fied by the Court, the Mayor of said town shall by a good and
sufficient deed, to be executed and acknowledged according to
law, convey to the purchaser or purchasers the parcels of land
so sold; such deeds shall vest in the grantee an absolute estate
in fee simple, free from all liens and encumbrances -whatever,
except liens for State, county and town taxes.

SEC. 8. The Commissioners of the County, the Board of
Public School Commissioners, Justices of the Peace, Sheriffs,
Constables, and all other State and county officers, shall have,
hold and exercise their offices in said town as heretofore, except
as qualified by the other sections of this Act. The County
Commissioners of Montgomery County shall on or before the
first day of January, 1911, and on or before the same month
and day in each and every year thereafter pay to the town of
Woodmont that proportion of the entire county levy for the
repair of roads which the total real property assessed by the
County Commissioners within the limits of the town of Wood-
mont bears to the whole amount of assessed property in Mont-
gomery county, so that the town of Woodmont shall receive
and disburse, for the maintenance of the roads, streets, avenues
and parkways of said town, the amount levied for the repair
of roads by said County Commissioners of Montgomery County
upon the real property within the corporate limits of the town
of Woodmont.

SEC. 9. This Act is hereby declared to be a public Act, and
may be used in evidence in all the Courts of this State without
proof.

SEC. 10. Neglect or non-use shall not work a forfeiture of
this charter.

SEC. 11. All Acts and parts of Acts inconsistent with any
of the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.

SEC. 12. And be it enacted. That for the purpose of deter-
mining the said bill incorporating the town of Woodmont as
hereinbefore set forth shall be operative, an election, as here-
inafter provided, to be held between the hours of 6 o'clock A. M.
and 9 o'clock P. M., at the store known in said town as Nash's
Store, on the tenth day of May, 1910, said election as to man-
agemen to be under the control of the election judges and
clerks of the last general election in Bethesda district, and in
case of any vacancy thereon or the failure of either or any of
said election judges or clerks to serve, then the remaining
judges shall fill the vacancies and they shall be paid for their
services by the County Commissioners of Montgomery County
in the same manner as judges and clerks at general elections
are now paid at general elections; that at said elections the
ballots shall be printed by the Board of Election Supervisors