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for the payment of the costs and expenses incident to furnishing
light and power.

SEC. 7. The said Commissioner of Streets shall also have
control of the lighting of the streets, lanes, alleys, squares, high-
ways and public places in the City of Hagerstown, and is em-
powered and authorized to operate and maintain the plant pro-
vided by this Act, and to provide fuel and materials, employ
engineers, linemen, collectors, agents, and other necessary labor,
and to make all needful provisions for carrying out the pur-
poses of this Act, and to make such repairs, changes and altera-
tions as from time to time he may deem proper and necessary.

SEC. 8. That during the month of April of each and every
year the Commissioner of Streets shall make a detailed report
to the Mayor and Council of Hagerstown of his operation of
the lighting plant in his charge and at the same time shall fur-
nish an estimate to the Mayor and Council of the probable ex-
pense of conducting said plant for the ensuing year, and the
Mayor and Council shall have power at any time to appoint a
visitor who shall have the privilege of examining the books of
the Commissioner in charge and the plant operated by him, and
he shall report the result of his investigations to the Mayor
and Council.

SEC. 11. That if the revenue derived from the payments for
services by consumers shall at any time exceed the sum of
money necessary to pay the operating expenses and the cost of
keeping the plant in repair and providing for reasonable ex-
tension and enlargement of the plant so as to meet all legitimate
demands, the sum of money remaining on the first day of May
in each year shall be appropriated by the Mayor and Council
to the payment of the principal and interest for any part of
the debt covered by the issue of bonds for the purpose of the
erection and maintenance of the electric light and power plant.

SEC. 13. That all claims for services of light or power
against any consumer that shall be in arrears for the period of
thirty days shall be placed in the hands of the attorney of the
Mayor and Council for collection, and suit shall be brought
thereon in the name of the Mayor and Council of Hagerstown,
and the provisions of Section 32 of Article 9, and Section 8 of
Article 83 of the Code of Public General Laws of Maryland
shall have no application to any execution or attachment issued
upon any judgment recovered in such suit, but so far as the
same may be held to affect any attachment or execution issued