ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 17

Commissioners of Centreville, be and it is hereby authorized
and empowered to borrow, upon the faith and credit of the
said municipal corporation, the sum of nineteen thousand
dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for the purpose
of paying for a turbine engine, dynamo, switch board and
exciter, and installing the same in the Electric Plant of said
Municipal Corporation and making other necessary repairs
and improvements; and to execute the promissory notes of
the said municipal corporation, the Town Commissioners of
Centreville for the amount so borrowed. Said notes shall
be drawn in such amounts as the said Municipal Corporation
shall in its descretion determine, but the total amount of
said promissory notes shall not exceed the aforesaid sum
of nineteen thousand dollars and the said municipal cor-
poration the Town Commissioners 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 promissory notes as they mature from
time to time, in whole or in part, until all of said promissory
notes and 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 corporation after the first day of January
1928.

Sec. 1A. And be it enacted. That nothing in this Act con-
tained is intended or shall be taken or construed as relieving the
Town Commissioners of Centreville from any and all provi-
sions of Chapter 180 of the Acts of the General Assembly of
Maryland of 1910, known as the Public Service Commission
Law, or any amendments thereto.

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 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