PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, GOVERNOR. 91
to supersede or repeal the laws now regulating the drawing of
juries by ballot, but simply to provide another way of drawing
them, leaving the judges in said Judicial Circuit free to use
either the ballot system or the marble or ball system as may
be most convenient and satisfactory to the judge or judges
drawing a jury.
SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect
from and after the first day of May, nineteen hundred and
fourteen.
Approved March 12th, 1914.
CHAPTER 73.
AN ACT to authorize and empower the Mayor and Council of
Easton to purchase from the Easton Water Company of Tal-
bot County its water works, including the capital stock, real
estate, springs, reservoirs, water mains, laterals, standpipe,
machinery, meters, water rights, privileges and franchises per-
taining thereto; to purchase the leasehold interest of the
Easton Ice Company of Talbot County in a part of the land
of the Easton Water Company and the buildings thereon
erected, and to borrow money for this purpose on the faith
and credit of the town and to assume the outstanding bonded
indebtedness against said company.
WHEREAS, The Easton Water Company of Talbot County
has made an offer to sell to the Mayor and Council of Easton its
water works, including its capital stock, franchises, machinery,
water mains, laterals, standpipe and all other property real and
personal connected therewith, at a price named in said offer;
and
WHEREAS, The Mayor and Council have, as provided by their
Charter, submitted the proposition for acceptance or rejection
of said offer to the qualified voters of the said town at a special
election held for that purpose on the 15th day of December,
1913; and
WHEREAS, A majority of said voters who voted for and
against the proposition have voted in favor of the acceptance of
said proposition, and it now becomes the duty of the Mayor and
Council to consummate such purchase; therefore,
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