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them, shall proceed to execute the power vested in them by this
Act, but if a majority of the votes cast shall be "Against Bond
Issue for Water Supply System, " then this Act shall be of no
effect, provided, however, that the same question shall be voted
upon in the same manner at any succeeding municipal election
at which the said Mayor and Common Council of Manchester

may in their discretion submit said question, and when so sub-
mitted and favorably passed upon by the voters as aforesaid, the
provisions of this Act shall become immediately effective.

SEC. 19. And be it further enacted, That for the immediate
preservation of the public health and safety, this Act shall take
effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 9, 1924.

CHAPTER 94.

AN ACT authorizing and empowering the Mayor and Council
of Crisfield, a municipal corporation, to withdraw from The
Marine Bank of Crisfield, Crisfield, Maryland, the sum of
fourteen thousand, three hundred and two dollars and thirty-
one cents ($14, 302. 31), being the amount realized by said
municipal corporation from the sale of bonds issued by said
municipal corporation, under the order of the State Board
of Health of Maryland, less the amount heretofore expended
by said municipal corporation, under the orders of the said
State Board of Health, together with the interest accrued
thereon, and authorizing and empowering the Mayor and
Council of Crisfield to use and apply said sum of money to
the payment of the existing outstanding indebtedness of said
municipal corporation.

WHEREAS, The State Board of Health of Maryland, by
virtue of the power conferred upon it by the General Assembly
of Maryland, by its order dated the 29th day of March, 1919.
required the Mayor and Council of Crisfield, a municipal cor-
poration, to install and put in operation a sewerage system in
the town of Crisfield, and to issue notes or bonds for the pur-
pose of carrying out said order; and

WHEREAS, In pursuance of said order the Mayor and Coun-
cil of Crisfield did issue and sell Health Bonds to the amount
of twenty-five thousand dollars ($25, 000. 00), bearing date the
first day of June, 1919, and bearing interest at the rate of five
per cent per annum, payable twenty years after date, from the
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