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question to be submitted, at which election the qualified voters
of Manchester shall determine by ballot whether the levying
of a tax hereinbefore provided shall become operative or not,
and at which election there shall be written or printed on the
ballots of said voters the words, "For the levying of a tax, "
and "Against the levying of a tax, " and if a majority of the
ballots cast shall contain the words "For the levying of a tax, "
then this Act shall become operative and binding, but if a
majority of said ballots shall contain the words "Against the
Levying of a tax, " then this Act shall be void and of no effect,
and the judges of said municipal election or a majority of
them, shall return to the Mayor of said town the numbers of
ballots cast "For levying of a tax" and "Against the levying of
a tax, " respectively, and the same Mayor shall announce the
result thereof.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That it is hereby de-
clared that this is an emergency law, and necessary for the
immediate preservation of the public health and safety, and the
same having been passed upon a yea and nay vote supported
by three-fifths of all the members elected to each of the two
Houses of the General Assembly, this Act shall take effect from
the date of its passage.

Approved March 20th, 1916.

CHAPTER 89.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments, Section 285A
of Article 13 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Mary-
land, title "Harford County, " sub-title "Wild Fowl, " and
to name said Section 285.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Section 285A of Article 13 of the Public
Local Laws of Maryland, title "Harford County, " sub-title
"Wild Fowl, " be and the same is hereby repealed, and re-en-
acted with amendments, to be known as Section 285, to read
as follows:

Section 285. No person shall gun for or after wild water
fowl or shoot at or kill the same northward of the line described
in Section 278, but three days in each week, until the first
day of January, during the season for shooting, wild water