1042 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 469

wise provided, shall be punishable before any Justice of the
Peace, or the Circuit Court of Carroll County, and shall be
brought by warrant or indictment upon the oath or informa-
tion of any member of the Mayor and Council or any employees
thereof, and the offender shall, upon conviction, be subject to
a fine not exceeding One Hundred Dollars or 30 days in the
County Jail, or both, in the discretion of the Court, Where
such an act or commission is of a continuing 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 convic-
tion.

SEC. 17. And be it further enacted, That during a calendar
year, after the year in which the last of the bonds issued
under this Act are sold, the Mayor and Council may issue
bonds, for the extension, enlargement or improvement of the
water and sewerage systems, not in excess of $5,000, without
a referendum, and all other provisions of this Act shall become
applicable to each of said bonds issued.

SEC. 18. And be it further enacted, That the Board of
Managers of the Springfield State Hospital are hereby author-
ized and empowered to allow a connection of the water system
of Sykesville with the Hospital's filtered water system, at such
location and under such conditions of payment as may be
agreed upon by said Board of Managers and the Mayor and
Council of Sykesville, or to extend said Hospital's system to
the location of said connection at the expense of the town of
Sykesville, as may be necessary; and said Board of Managers
are further authorized and empowered to supply at all times
the town of Sykesville with such amount of water as may be
required by said town, as such reasonable rate or rates per
thousand gallons as may be mutually agreed upon by said
Board of Managers and said Mayor and Council, which rate
or rates may be changed by mutual agreement as conditions
may require.

SEC. 19. And be it further enacted, That at the next regu-
lar election of the Mayor and Council there shall be submitted
to the qualified voters of the town, the question whether bonds
shall be issued for water and sewerage systems in Sykesville,
and at such election the ballots cast upon such question shall
have thereon the words "For Water and Sewerage Bonds" and