EMERSON C. HARRINGTON, GOVERNOR. 1479

can, without unreasonable delay, take them before some Justice
of the Peace for trial; the Mayor and City Council shall have
power, by ordinance, to license and regulate hackney coaches,
carts, drays, wagons, or other carriages kept for hire and em-
ployed within the City, with power to make all necessary regu-
lations respecting the same, and also the power to sell sand or
clay from any of the streets, lanes or alleys of the City, when
in the judgment of the Mayor and City Council, the same is
not needed for grading purposes.

Section 339. The Mayor and City Council are hereby au-
thorised and empowered to borrow on the faith and credit of
the City any sum or sums of money not exceeding in the ag-
gregate five thousand dollars and may issue bonds or other evi-
dences of indebtedness for the same, and in such sums and
payable at such time as they may by ordinance prescribe; pro-
vided, however, that at no time or times shall the Mayor and
City Council borrow any sum or sums of money exceeding j n
the aggregate five thousand dollars without first obtaining the
consent of a majority of the legally qualified voters of said
City, except the bonds herein specially provided for in Sections
309 and 340; any bonds or other evidences of indebtedness,
claim or demand for any sum or sums of money in excess of
the sum of five thousand dollars as aforesaid, hereafter issued
or existing on account of any sum or sums of money borrowed
by said City in excess of the aforesaid sum of five thousand
dollars without having first obtained the consent of a majority
of the legally qualified voters of said City as aforesaid, shall
be absolutely void and of no effect, and shall be unenforceable
in the hands of the holder or holders thereof whosoever he or
they may be.

Section 340. Whenever the Mayor and City Council of
Havre de Grace, having first obtained the approval of and con-
sent of a majority of the legally qualified voters of said city
as herein provided for, shall determine to purchase or erect
any gas plant, electric light plant, water plant or system of
sewers for said city, they are hereby authorized and empowered
to borrow on the credit of said city, a sum of money necessary
for such purchase or erection and to issue bonds therefor. And
said bonds shall be issued in the manner and under the same
terms and conditions as to form, maturity, redemption, pay-
ment, sinking fund and other particulars as in this Act pro-
vided, for the issue of bonds for the liquidation of the present
floating indebtedness of said city shall at no time exceed five
per centum of the taxable basis of said city.