248 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 141

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect
on the first day of June nineteen hundred and twenty.

Approved April 9, 1920.

CHAPTER 141.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Section
196-B of Article 21 of the Code of Public Local Laws of
Maryland, title "Talbot County," sub-title "St.
Michaels," as enacted by Chapter 47 of the Acts of 1918.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 196-B of Article 21 of the Code of Public
Local Laws of Maryland, title "Talbot County," sub-title
"St. Michaels," as enacted by Chapter 47 of the Acts of 1918,
be and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted with amend-
ments to read as follows :

196-B. The Commissioners of St. Michaels are hereby au-
thorized and empowered to borrow on the faith and credit of
said town for the use of the town in surveying, grading and
paving the streets of said town any sum or sums of money not
exceeding in the aggregate twenty thousand dollars and said
Commissioners are authorized and empowered to issue bonds
or other evidence of indebtedness for the same in such sums
and payable at such times as they may, by ordinance prescribe
provided, however, that the payment of said bonds or other
evidences of indebtedness issued under authority of this sec-
tion and the interest thereon, shall be paid by said Commis-
sioners from the general taxes levied for the use of said town
under powers heretofore or hereafter granted, the levying or
collecting of any special tax for the payment of said bonds
or other evidences of indebtedness being hereby expressly
prohibited.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act is hereby
declared to be an emergency law necessary for the immediate
preservation of the public safety, and being 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,
the same shall, take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved March 26, 1920.