802 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 478.

AN ACT to authorize and empower The Mayor and Aldermen of
Frederick to issue and sell bonds for a sum of money not ex-
ceeding one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000), for the pur-
pose of providing payment for such permanent improvements
as may be found necessary or desirable, and for the purpose of
building reservoirs, acquiring title to land along and adjacent
to the water sheds of Tuscarora and Fishing Creek, in Fred-
erick County, Maryland, and making such improvements and
extensions to its water system as it shall think proper, pro-
vided that such improvements, extensions and acquisition of
land and the approximate amount to be expended therefor
shall receive the assent of the qualified voters of the City of
Frederick before such bonds are issued and sold.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the Mayor and Aldermen of Fredrick is hereby au-
thorized and empowered to issue and sell bonds for a sum of
money not exceeding one hundred thousand dollars ($100,-
000.00), for the purposes and under the conditions set forth
in this Act.

SEC. 2. Be it enacted, That the Mayor and Aldermen of
Frederick is hereby authorized to prepare an ordinance, or ordi-
nances, setting out the purpose or purposes to which the pro-
ceeds, from the sale of bonds provided for under the terms of
this Act shall be devoted, said ordinance or ordinances to specify
the approximated cost of each proposed improvement and re-
pairs, and the amount to be expended in acquiring title to land
and submit the same to the duly qualified voters of the City of
Frederick at any geenral election, or at any special election or
elections which it is hereby authorized to call for all or any of
the purposes aforesaid, which said special election, or elections,
shall be held at such times, and places and in such manner as
the said The Mayor and Aldermen shall by ordinance, or ordi-
nances, provide, but no such bonds shall be issued and sold
unless the duly qualified voters of the City of Frederick, at any
such election, shall by a majority of the votes duly cast declare
their assent to the issuance and sale of the bonds therein men-
tioned, or any of them, and the purposes to which the money
derived from the sale of any such bonds shall be applied. Bach
proposed improvement, extension, repairs and amount to be
expended in acquiring title to land, may be voted upon separ-
ately, and separate elections may be held for the purpose of
carrying out the provisions of this Act, but in the event any