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to put same in shape for said use and to fence and inclose
same, and to execute the promissory notes of the said
municipal corporation The Town Commissioners of Centre-
ville for the amount so borrowed. Said notes shall be drawn
in such amounts as the said municipal corporation shall in
its discretion determine, but the total amount of said promis-
sory notes shall not exceed the aforesaid sum of five thousand
dollars and the said municipal corporation, the Town Com-
missioners of Centreville, is hereby authorized and empowered,
for and during a period not exceeding four years from and
after the first day of January 1924, to renew the said promis-
sory notes as they mature from time to time, in whole

or in part, until all said promissory notes and the interest to
accrue thereon have been fully paid, but no renewal note shall
be drawn so as to fall due after the first day of January 1928,
and no renewal note shall be given by said municipal corpor-
ation after the first day of January 1928.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That this Act is
hereby declared an emergency law necessary for the immediate
preservation of the public safety and health, and being passed
upon the 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 5, 1924.

CHAPTER 6.

AN ACT to authorize the Town Commissioners of Centreville,
a Municipal Corporation, to issue bonds, in the sum of
seventeen thousand dollars, for the purpose of refunding
the bonded indebtedness of the said Town Commissioners
of 'Centreville under Chapter 188 of the Acts of the General
Assembly of Maryland of 1888 and Chapter 225 of the
Acts of the General Assembly of Maryland of 1906, and to
levy and collect the necessary taxes for the payment of said
bonds and interest thereon.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the Town Commissioners of Centreville, a
Municipal Corporation, be and it is hereby authorized and
empowered to borrow, on the faith and credit of said cor-