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ty are authorized and empowered to borrow on the credit of
Baltimore County such sum or sums of money, from time to
time as the County Commissioners may deem necessary, pro-
vided that such loans in the aggregate shall not at any one
time exceed Two Hundred and Fifty Thousand Dollars ($250, -
000), for the use of the Metropolitan District in Baltimore
County, and to repay such loans out of the moneys derived
from subsequent Metropolitan Bond Issues.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act is hereby
declared to be an emergency law and necessary for the preser-
vation of the public health and safety, and being passed upon
by a 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 pas-
sage.

Approved February 17, 1927.

CHAPTER 6.

AN ACT to authorize and empower the Town Commissioners of
Centreville to sell the Municipal Electric Lighting and Power
Plant, consisting of dynamos, exciters, boilers, engines, trans-
formers, meters, turbines, poles, pole lines and all equipment
belonging to said electric plant, to prescribe the method of
said sale and the distribution of the proceeds thereof and to
provide for submitting the same to the legally qualified voters
of said town.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the Town Commissioners of Centreville, a Municipal
Corporation, be and it is hereby authorized and empowered to
sell the municipal electric lighting and power plant consisting
of dynamos, exciters, boilers, engines, transformers, meters,
turbines, poles, pole lines and all equipment belonging thereto,
when, in its judgment, an adequate and just price can be
obtained therefor and at the same time proper and adequate
arrangements can be made for the lighting of said town of
Centreville and supplying it with electrical current.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That when the Town
Commissioners of Centreville have received an offer for said
Electric Plant and Equipment, which, in its judgment is ade-