LAWS OF MARYLAND [CH. 614

directed to purchase and acquire such land, premises, rights-
of-way, streams and water courses and water power and such
other property as the said Mayor and Town Council of Oak-
land may deem proper for the carrying out and rendering
effective of this Act, and the said Mayor and Town Council
of Oakland are hereby clothed with the power of condemna-
tion under the right of eminent domain as provided in Sec-
tions 399 to 4.04, both inclusive, of Article 23 of the Code of
Public General Laws of Maryland, as fully as if said sections
had been herein incorporated, and their manner of procedure
of condemnation for the purposes of this Act shall in all
particulars be the same as is provided in said Sections 399
to 404, both inclusive, of said Article 23.

SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That the said Mayor
and Town Council of Oakland are hereby authorized and
empowered to pass all such ordinances as may be necessary
for the successful operation of said Electric Light Plant and
for the maintenance and protection of the said plant and its
machinery, poles, lines and property of every kind.

SEC. 8. And be it further enacted, That nothing in this
Act contained is intended or shall be taken or construed as
relieving the Mayor and Town Council of Oakland from any
and all of the provisions of Chapter 180 of the Acts of the
General Assembly of Maryland of 1910. known as the Public
Service Commission Law, or any amendment thereto, to the
extent that the same may apply to municipal electric light,
heat and power plants.

SEC. 9. And be it further enacted, That before said debt
is created and said bonds issued, the question of its creation
and the issuance of said bonds shall be submitted to the quali-
fied voters of the Town of Oakland at a special municipal elec-
tion to be called by the Mayor and Town Council of Oakland
for that purpose, notice of which shall bo given by publica-
tion in some newspaper piiblished in the Town of Oakland
and by posting notice of said election in at least five conspic-
uous places in said town; said publication and posting to be
at least ten clays prior to the holding of said election. Said
notice shall refer to the Act of Assembly authorizing the
creation of said debt and the issuance of said bonds, the pur-
pose of the issue, describe the indebtedness to he created and
the amount thereof, and the ballots shall be printed "For