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of the interest on said bonds as the same shall become due and
payable and for the payment of the principal of said bonds
when same shall become due and payable, and said taxes shall
be collected as other taxes are now collected for the use of said
town of Hampstead. All bonds authorized to be issued under
the provisions of this Act shall be serial bonds, and a portion
of the principal of said bonds shall be made payable annually,
and said bonds may be issued in whole or in part at any time
after the passage of this Act, and they shall fall due and be-
come payable at stated periods and at such times they shall be
taken up and redeemed; providing that no series of bonds au-
thorized to be issued under this Act shall extend over a period
of fifteen years from the date of the issuance of said series.
The Mayor and Common Council of Hampstead are hereby
authorized and empowered to pass all ordinances and do all
things necessary for the purpose of carrying out the provisions
of this Act.

SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That the said Mayor and
Common Council of Hampstead shall cause to be kept a care-
ful register of the bonds authorized to be issued and sold under
this Act and of the transfers thereof; and as the same are col-
lected in and paid off they shall be cancelled and a record of
the cancellation by numbers, amounts and names of the last
holders of said bonds shall be made and entered upon the books
in which the said bonds are registered.

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That this Act is hereby declared
to be an emergency law and necessary for the immediate preser-
vation of the public health or safety, and having been 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 As-
sembly, the same shall take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved March 21st, 1922.

CHAPTER 107.

AN ACT to amend the Charter of Manchester, Carroll County,
Maryland, by adding a new section to Article 7 of the Code
of Public Local Laws, title "Carroll County, " sub-title "Man-
chester, " as amended by Chapter 132 of the Acts of the Gen-
eral Assembly of Maryland, passed at its January Session,
in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, to follow Sec-