ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 805

individual, unless notice of the same shall have been first pub-
lished for at least two weeks in two newspapers of the City of
Cumberland; and no franchise right or privilege in relation to
any highways, avenues, streets, alleys, lanes or parks, either on,
above or below the surface of the same, shall be granted by the
Mayor and City Council to any person or corporation for a long-
er period than fifty years.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect from the first day of June, 1924.

Approved April 9, 1924.

CHAPTER 273.

AN ACT to authorize, empower and direct the Commissioners
of Ellicott City, to borrow on the faith and credit of said
City, such sum or sums of money, not exceeding in the
aggregate Six Thousand Dollars ($6, 000. 00) as may be nec-
essary to enable said Commissioners to purchase a site for
a fire engine house, and to improve the same, and to provide
for the repayment thereof.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the Commissioners of Ellicott City be, and they are
hereby, authorized, empowered and directed to borrow on the
faith and credit of said city such sum or sums of money, not ex-
ceeding in the aggregate Six Thousand Dollars ($6, 000. 00), as
may be necessary to enable said Commissioners to purchase a
site for a fire engine house, and to improve the same.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That for the repayment of
said sum or sums of money so borrowed, the said Commissioners
of Ellicott City shall execute their promissory note or notes, the
same to be signed by the President of said Commissioners, and
countersigned by the City Registrar. Said note or notes shall
bear interest from date, at such rate, and shall be drawn in
such amounts, and payable at such time or times, as the said
Commissioners of Ellicott City shall, in their discretion, de-
termine, but the total amount of said promissory note or notes
shall not exceed the sum of Six Thousand Dollars ($6, 000. 00).
And the said Commissioners of Ellicott City are hereby author-
ized and empowered to renew said promissory note or notes
as they mature, from time to time, in whole or in part, until
all of said promissory notes, and the interest thereon, have been
fully paid.