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to the said Home and Infirmary of Western Maryland, in the
City of Cumberland, shall enure to the benefit of and be pay-
able to said Board of Governors of the Memorial Hospital of
Cumberland.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That this Act is an
emergency law and necessary for the immediate preservation of
the public health and safety, and having been passed by a yea
and nay vote by three-fifths of all the members elected to each
of the two Bouses of the General Assembly, the same shall
take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 11, 1929.

CHAPTER 223.

AN ACT to provide for the construction of a Sewage Disposal
Plant with intake and outlet sewers, and necessary mechan-
ical equipment in Chestertown, Kent County, Maryland,
and to issue bonds to pay for the same and to levy an annual
tax for payment of such bonds and the interest thereon, and
submitting same to the qualified voters of Chestertown for
their approval or rejection.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the Commissioners of Chestertown, be and are
hereby authorized and empowered to issue bonds in the name
of the Commissioners of Chestertown, to an amount not ex-
ceeding $25, 000. 00, in sums not less than $1, 000. 00, to be
signed by the Commissioners of Chestertown under the cor-
porate seal of said Commissioners, to be designated as "Ches-
tertown Sewage Disposal Plant Bonds, " and sell same to the
highest bidder; provided no bid less than par shall be accepted
therefor, which bonds shall bear interest at a rate not exceed-
ing five per cent per annum, payable semi-annually on the
first day of July and the first day of January in each year,
which bonds shall be exempted from all county and munic-
ipal taxation in Kent County, and the due or overdue coupons
for interest shall be received by the Commissioners of Ches-
tertown in payment of town taxes. One of said bonds shall be
payable January 1st, 1932, and one of said bonds shall be
payable each year thereafter until fully paid. Said bonds