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able cost thereof to be borne by the President and Commis-
sioners of Northeast, as to fully meet the exigencies occasioning
the said notice, and should the exigencies of any case involve a
taking, in the constitutional sense, of the franchise or right in
the exercise of which obstruction had its origin, the President
and Commissioners of Northeast shall be empowered to condemn
an easement in said franchise or right. Any violation of the
provisions of this Section shall be a misdemeanor, punishable
under Section 16 of this Act.

SEC. 16. And be it further enacted, That every act or omis-
sion designated as a misdemeanor in this Act, unless otherwise
provided, shall be punishable before any Justice of the Peace,
or the Circuit Court for Cecil County, and shall be brought
by warrant or indictment upon the oath or information of any
member of said President and Commissioners of Northeast; or
any employee 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 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 from
one offense shall not be a bar to a conviction for a continuation
of such offense subsequent to the first or any succeeding con-
viction.

SEC. 17. 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same are hereby repealed to the extent of their inconsistency,
provided that nothing herein contained shall be taken as affect-
ing Chapter 810 of the Acts of the Maryland Legislature of
1914, nor as restricting any control which the State Board of
Health of Maryland is empowered to exercise within the cor-
porate limits of the town of Northeast.

SEC. 18. And be it further enacted, That at the next regular
election of the President and Commissioners of Northeast there
shall be submitted to the qualified voters of the town of North-
east, the question whether bonds shall be issued for said water
supply system in Northeast, and at such election the ballots
cast upon such question shall have the words "For Bond Issue
for Water Supply System, " and "Against Bond Issue for
Water Supply System, " thereon, and if a majority of the
votes cast upon said question shall be "For Bond Issue of
Water Supply System, " then the President and Commissioners