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section, or as may be by other legislation, imposed. The said
Mayor and Council of Easton, as such, shall have perpetual suc-
cession, and by said name may sue and be sued; they may hold,
possess, purchase and otherwise acquire for corporate purposes
property, real, personal and mixed, and they may sell, dispose
of and convey any such property for the benefit of said town;
provided, however, that no sale or purchase of any such prop-
erty, having a single or composite value equal to or exceeding
ten thousand dollars, shall be consummated without the pre-
vious approval of a majority of all the registered voters of the
town as evidenced at a special election held for that purpose
after the proposition has been given full publicity by newspa-
per advertisement, in some newspaper published in the town
of Easton, once in each of four successive weeks, the last
insertion being at least ten days before the date fixed for such
election, except purchases for or additions to, municipally
owned public utilities after such proposed purchases have been
recommended by the Easton Utilities Commission and approved
by the Mayor and Council of Easton as provided in Chapter
263 of the Acts of 1914; and provided, further, that no public
utility now owned or hereafter acquired by the town shall be
sold, leased or in any other manner disposed of, nor (notwith-
standing general authority may elsewhere in the Charter be
conferred) shall the Mayor and Council of Easton contract with
or grant a franchise, or other license, to any individual, com-
pany, or present or prospective corporation, for the performance
of any public service which may now, or likely hereafter be
brought in commercial or other competition with any municipal
utility now owned by the town or likely to be created without the
previous approval of three-fourths of all the registered voters of
the town, as evidenced at a special election held for that
specific purpose, after due publication of all the details and
conditions of the proposition by newspaper advertisement
in some newspaper published in the town of Easton once in
each of four successive weeks, the last insertion being at least
ten days before the date fixed for such election; and they may
use a corporate seal, and may alter the same at pleasure.

Approved March 18, 1927.

CHAPTER 20.

AN ACT to repeal Section 391 of Staton's Code of Public Local
Laws of Worcester County, title "Snow Hill, " and re-enact
same with amendments.