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except at prices approved by the Mayor and Council of Salis-
bury. The said Clerk of Salisbury shall deliver said bonds
when sold, to the purchaser or purchasers thereof and receive

the money therefor, including any premiums thereon, and shall
report under oath to the Mayor and Council of Salisbury his
proceedings in the premises as soon as possible after said sale,
with the name or names of the purchasers to whom said bonds
have been sold or delivered, together with the amount received
on each bond so sold, and said money, including said premiums,
if any, shall be credited by the Clerk of Salisbury on his books
to "The Fire Department Building Fund" to be applied only
for the purposes specified in Section 1 hereof.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the Mayor and
Council of Salisbury shall annually levy upon all property
liable to taxation in the City of Salisbury, at the regular tax
levying period, an amount sufficient to meet and pay the interest-
on said bonds so issued and outstanding and to meet and pay
the principal of said bonds as they shall severally become due,
from time to time, which tax shall be levied and collected, and
shall have the same priority rights, bear the same interest and
penalties and in every respect be treated the same as other city
taxes now are. Said amount so levied and collected shall be
kept in a separate fund to be used for the payment of said
interest and principal and for no other purpose whatsoever.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That this Act is hereby
declared to be an emergency law and necessary for the imme-
diate preservation of the public safety, and being passed upon
a Yea and Nay vote supported by three-fifths (3/5) of all the
members elected to each of the two Houses of the General Assem-
bly, the same shall take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved March 11, 1927.

CHAPTER 72.

AN ACT to ratify and confirm two deeds of conveyance from
The Salisbury Realty Co. to the County Commissioners of
Wicomico County, Maryland, and to authorize the County
Commissioners aforesaid to sell all or a certain part or parts
thereof.

WHEREAS, The County Commissioners of Wicomico County,
Maryland, did on the fifteenth day of December, nineteen
hundred twenty-four, purchase at private sale from The