ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 131

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Section 1 of Chapter 635 of the Acts of 1927
of the General Assembly of Maryland, entitled "An Act to
authorize and empower the Mayor and Council of Hagers-
town to sell and convey certain real estate within the corporate
limits owned by the city and not needed in the opinion of
the Mayor and Council for municipal purposes and providing
for the disposition of the funds arising from the sale thereof, "
be and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted with amend-
ments, so as to read as follows:

1. The Mayor and Council of Hagerstown are hereby au-
thorized and empowered to sell and convey, lease, or otherwise¹
lawfully dispose of the whole or any part of any real estate and
personal property within and/or without the corporate limits:
of said Hagerstown and owned by said Hagerstown that in the
opinion of said Mayor and Council is not needed for municipal
purposes, the proceeds arising from any such sale, lease, or
other disposition of such property to be deposited in the name
of the Tax Collector of Hagerstown to the credit of the "Mis-
cellaneous. Fund of the City" and to be paid out, only on war-
rants signed by the Mayor and endorsed by the Clerk of said¹
Hagerstown, for municipal purposes; provided, however, that
it shall be unlawful for said Mayor and Council, and said
Mayor and Council shall not have any power or authority, to
sell, lease, or otherwise dispose of the whole or any part of the
real estate and personal property owned by said Hagerstown
within and/or without the corporate limits of said Hagerstown
that is now, or that shall hereafter be, used in the operation of
or in connection with the municipal electric light plant, except
to sell or otherwise dispose of any machinery and equipment for
the purpose of immediate replacement only, unless and until
all the following requirements shall have been fully complied
with: said Mayor and Council shall first cause to be published
at least once a week for four successive weeks in each daily
newspaper published in said Hagerstown a notice signed by
said Mayor and Council that said Mayor and Council propose
to sell, lease, or otherwise dispose of, as the case may be, cer-
tain property, describing it, used in the operation of or in
connection with the municipal electric light plant, said notice
to be published not more than three months before the election
at which the question of such proposed sale, lease, or other
disposition of said property is to be voted on as hereinafter
provided for; said Mayor and Council shall then have the