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ner required by the said Commissioners, through their proper
officer, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction
thereof before a Justice of the Peace of St. Michaels district,
shall be adjudged to pay a fine not exceeding five dollars and
cost of the case, and stand committed until said fine and costs
are paid. During the month of April of the year 1920 and of
each year thereafter the said Commissioners shall cause to be
made out a list of all persons residing in said town liable to
render the service aforesaid and shall notify each person so
liable before the first day of May following, and each person
so liable and notified hereunder shall have the option, or
privilege, either to render the above service when required
hereunder, or to pay into the treasury of said town, during the
said month of May, of each year, the sum of one dollar as an
exemption fee releasing said person from the service afore-
said. And at any time during the said year, after the month
of. May aforesaid, every person liable hereunder. who has
not paid the said exemption fee of one dollar, shall be subject
and liable to be called out to work, and shall work as above
provided on the said streets, lanes, alleys, thoroughfares, gut-
ters, ditches and drains of said town for the maintenance of
the general health and proper sanitation of said town, and in
default shall suffer the penalty above provided.

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 April 16, 1920.

CHAPTER 190.

AN ACT to authorize and direct the County Commissioners
of Allegany County to borrow money on the credit of said
county to purchase new school sites, for the erection of
new school buildings, for additions, alterations and im-
provements in old school buildings, for equipping, heat-
ing, lighting, ventilating, and additional sanitation in old
and new school buildings, and for paving and walling