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condemned, upon first paying to the Clerk of the Circuit Court
for Wicomico County the amount of said award and all costs,
taxed to date, notwithstanding any appeal or further proceed-
ings upon the part of the defendant; at the time of said pay-
ment, however, it shall give its corporate undertaking to abide
by and fulfill any judgment on such appeal or further proceed-
ings.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall not
affect or impair any right vested or acquired and existing at the-
time of the passage of this Act; provided, that this section shall
not be construed to make irreparable or irrevocable any right
which before the passage of this Act was repealable or revocable;
nor shall this Act impair, discharge or release any contract,
obligation, duty, liability or penalty whatever now existing. All
suits and actions, both civil and criminal, pending, or which
may hereafter be instituted for causes of action now existing
or offenses already committed against any law or ordinance re-
pealed by this Act, shall be instituted, proceeded with and pro-
secuted to final determination and judgment as if this Act had
not been passed. No tax levied or any proceeding taken for the
collection of any such tax or the enforcement of the payment
of the same before the passage of this Act shall in any manner
be affected by the passage of this Act, and the mode of proce-
dure in any such matter shall be the same as if this Act had
not been passed.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That all laws now en-
forced relating or applicable to the Mayor and Council of Salis-
bury and not included in this Act and not inconsistent with
this Act, and all ordinances of the Mayor and Council of Salis-
bury now in force and not inconsistent with this Act, shall be
and they are hereby continued until changed or repealed, re-
spectively, by the General Assembly of Maryland or the Mayor
and Council of Salisbury.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That all officers provided
for or named in the charter of Salisbury or any amendments;
thereto, as it now stands before the passage of this Act, whether
by election or appointment, shall continue to hold, exercise and.
discharge the duties of their respective offices until their suc-
cessors shall be duly qualified, and nothing contained in this.
Act shall be construed to interfere with the continuity of the
terms or tenure of said officers; nor shall a reappointment or
re-election of any of said officers be necessary in order to secure
the said continuity of their said terms and tenures of office,
unless otherwise provided in this Act.

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