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for building and installing sewers; for grading, paving and
otherwise improving any street or portion thereof, which they
shall from time to time determine to pave, grade, or otherwise
improve; for grading, paving or in any other manner construct-
ing sidewalks, curbing and gutters along any street or portion
thereof, which they shall from time to time determine to im-
prove in this manner; for the purchase, condemnation, or ac-
quisition in any other manner of any land which they may
deem it necessary to acquire for the widening or straightening
or opening of any street, lane or alley in said Town of Midland,
and for any and all other permanent general improvements to
the said Town of Midland, which the said Mayor and Council
of Midland may deem necessary.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall not
become effective unless at the Town election to be held at the
Town of Midland in the mouth of May, 1914, there shall be
cast a majority of votes in favor of the issue of said bonds, and
that at said election the question of the issue of said bonds
shall be submitted to the qualified voters of the said Town of
Midland, and that on the ballots provided by the Mayor and
Council of Midland at said election, there shall be printed the
words, "For Midland General Improvement Bonds," and
'' Against Midland General Improvement Bonds,'' with a square
after said words, in each case, for the (X) mark of the voter,
and the voter may vote thereon, either by an (X) mark after
his choice, or by running a pencil or pen through the one to
which he is opposed; and if there be a majority of votes cast
in favor of said bonds, then the said Mayor and Council of Mid-
land shall be authorized to issue said bonds, as hereinbefore pro-
vided ; and if there be a majority of votes cast against the issu-
ance of said bonds, then this Act shall be null and void.

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

Approved March 24th, 1914.

CHAPTER 139.

AN ACT to provide for the construction of a bridge across Long
Creek in the Second Election District of Cecil County.

WHEREAS, The County Commissioners of Cecil County have
laid out and opened for public travel a. public road leading west-
wardly from the west end of Biddle Street, in the town of