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or the Circuit Court for Carroll County and shall be brought
by warrant or indictment upon the oath or information of any
member of said Mayor and Common Council of Union Bridge
or any employee thereof, and the offender shall upon convic-
tion, he subject to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars
or thirty days in the county jail, or both, in the discretion of
the Court. Where such act or omission is of a continuous
nature, and is persisted in, in violation of the provisions of
this Act, or any rule or regulation formulated thereunder, a
conviction for one offense shall not be a bar to a conviction for
a continuation of such offense subsequent to the first or any
succeeding conviction.

SEC. 16. And be it further enacted, That all Acts and
parts of Acts inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, be
and the same are hereby repealed to the extent of their incon-
sistency, provided that nothing herein contained shall be taken
as affecting Chapter 810 of the Acts of the Maryland Legis-
lature of 1914. nor as restricting any control which the State
Board of Health of Maryland is empowered to exercise within
the corporate limits of the town of, Union Bridge.

SEC. 17. And be it further enacted. That at the next
regular election of the Mayor and Common Council of Union
Bridge there shall be submitted to the qualified voters of Union
Bridge the question whether bonds shall be issued for said
sewerage system in Union Bridge, and at such election the bal-
lots cast upon such question shall have the words "For Bond
Issue for Sewerage System," and "Against Bond Issue for
Sewerage System" thereon, and if a majority of the votes cast
upon said question shall be "For Bond Issue for Sewerage
System." then the Mayor and Common Council of Union
Bridge or a majority of them, shall proceed to execute the
power vested in them by this Act, but if a majority of the votes
cast shall be "Against the Bond Issue for Sewerage System,"
then this Act shall be of no effect, provided, however, that
the same question shall be voted upon in the same manner at
each succeeding municipal and general election until such time
as it shall be passed upon favorably, at which time the pro-
visions of this Act shall become immediately effective.

SEC. 18. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall
take effect from the date of its passage, it being hereby de-