ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 53

CHAPTER 27.

AN ACT to authorize, empower and direct the Commissioners
of Sharptown, Wicomico County, Maryland, to construct,
establish, maintain, operate and control a water supply sys-
tem, and to provide for the issuance of bonds for the pur-
pose of such construction, maintenance, operation and con-
trol, and to provide for the levy of assessments and benefit
charges and rates for the payment of such bonds, and the
operation, maintenance, regulation and control of said sys-
tem; to provide for the purchase and condemnation of prop-
erty, and for other purposes; to provide for submitting this
Act to the voters of Sharptown; to provide for increasing
the tax rate, for the purposes defined in this Act, beyond the
limit established in Article 171, Section 1, of the Code of
Public Local Laws of Maryland, title "Wicomico County, "
sub-title "Sharptown. "

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the Commissioners of Sharptown, Wicomico
County, Maryland, be, and the same are hereby authorized,
empowered and directed to establish and construct a water
supply system for said town, within and without the town
limits; to do any and all work including preliminary work
and the employment of engineering and clerical force neces-
sary for the carrying out of the provisions of this Act; and
for the purposes of this Act to issue bonds on the faith and
credit of said town for the payment of said water supply sys-
tem, and to acquire by purchase or condemnation whatever
property or rights-of-way within or outside the corporate limits
of said town that they may deem necessary and proper.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted. That the Commissioners
of Sharptown, hereinafter designated as the "authorities, " shall
proceed as soon as possible after the passage of this Act to
employ such engineering and other help as they deem neces-
sary for the purpose of preparing surveys, plans, specifications
and estimates for a water supply system for said town. Upon
the completion of said estimate the authorities shall advertise
in at least one newspaper in the county of Wicomico, and one
newspaper in the City of Baltimore, for the receipt of bids
for the construction of said water supply system either in
whole or in part, as in their judgment may be deemed proper.
Said advertisement shall state the time and place that the
authorities may name for the opening of bids, and all bids