ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 103
the Mayor and Town Council of Garrett Park are hereby
authorized and empowered to levy and collect a special tax
not to exceed twenty-five cents (25 cents) in any one year on
each One Hundred Dollars ($100) of the assessable property
of said town for said purpose, such levy and collection to be
made In the same manner as other taxes now levied and col-
lected by said town.
SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That before this Act shall
become operative, the Mayor and Town Council of Garrett
Park shall submit the question of levying the said tax to the
qualified voters of said town at the regular municipal election
to be held in said town in the month of May, 1929, and at said
election the ballots cast upon said question shall have printed
thereon the words "For Special Road Tax" and "Against
Special Road Tax, " with a square after the words in each
case for the "X" mark of the voter; and if a majority of said
votes cast upon said question shall be "For Special Road Tax, "
the Mayor and Town Council of Garrett Park may proceed
at any time to execute the powers vested in them by the provi-
sions of this Act; but if a majority of the votes cast upon
said question shall be "Against Special Road Tax, " then the
provisions of this Act, in so far as they authorize the levy and
collection of said special road tax at that time, shall become
inoperative provided, however, that if the proposal to levy
said special road tax to be defeated at said election the question
may again be submitted to the qualified voters of said town,
in the same manner as hereinbefore prescribed, at the next
regular municipal election to be held in the month of May
of the next succeeding year.
SEC. 3. And be it further enacted. That said approval by
the qualified voters of the said Garrett Park as provided for
in Section 2 shall constitute an authorization of said special
tax for a period of three (3) years from and including July
1 of the year in which the vote shall be taken.
SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That should the Mayor
and Town Council of the said Garrett Park deem it necessary
from time to time again to levy such special tax for any period
or periods subsequent to that provided for in Section 3, then
in such event the said Mayor and Town Council are hereby
authorized and empowered to levy and collect such special tax,
provided that before levying such special tax the question shall,
in each such event, be submitted to the qualified voters of the
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