1010 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

trie light and sewer systems herein provided for, including
street grading, draining or repairing, if any, incidental thereto,,
as well as all expenses connected with the execution of this
law, such as the cost of advertising, the purchase of books and
stationery, the printing of the bonds herein authorized, the em-
ployment of attorney or counsel, if any should be needed, and
other necessary or incidental expenditures, shall be paid out of
the funds derived from the sale of the bonds hereby authorized.

SEC. 9. Provided, however, that the foregoing Sections shall
not become effective unless the same be approved by a majority
of the qualified voters of the town of Hurlock aforesaid, parti-
cipating in a special election at which the question of owning,
operating, building, constructing or acquiring the water works,
electric light and sewer systems, as hereinbefore provided, shall
be submitted, to be held in the year nineteen hundred and four-
teen, on the last Saturday in July, of the said year, the polls to
be open from 1 to 4 o'clock P. M., and the polling place or
places for such election shall be selected and designated by the
"Commissioners of Hurlock." At each polling place in the
said town on said date there shall be provided by the "Com-
missioners of Hurlock" tickets having written or printed there-
on "For Public Utility Improvements'' and "Against Public-
Utility Improvements" and each qualified voter shall have the
privilege of voting on said subject.

The said Commissioners shall likewise appoint three judges
and two clerks for each polling place to conduct the said election
and to certify the result thereof. The ballots cast at such elec-
tion shall be deposited by the judges in a ballot box or boxes,
to be provided for that purpose by the '' Commissioners of Hur-
lock," and after the closing of the polls, the said ballots shall
be counted by the Judges and tabulated by the Clerks, and the
return of said election, certified by all the judges and clerks,
shall be forthwith made to the "Commissioners of Hurlock,"
who promptly shall make proclamation of the result of said
election by advertisement to be published in one or more news-
papers printed in the town of Hurlock. The '' Commissioners of
Hurlock" shall give at least three weeks' notice of the time and
place or places of said election on the subject of owning, oper-
ating, building, constructing or acquiring the water works, elec-
tric light and sewer systems aforesaid, by advertisement pub-
lished is at least one newspaper in the town of Hurlock, and
that said advertisement so to be published shall set out in full
all the provisions of this Act.