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payment of all outstanding bonds of the Mayor and Council
of Crisfield aggregating in principal amount twenty thou-
sand, five hundred dollars ($20, 500. 00) which have matured
and are unpaid, and promissory notes of said Mayor and
Council of Crisfield aggregating in principal amount sixteen
thousand dollars ($16, 000. 00), which have matured and are
unpaid, "

SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That for the pur-
pose of securing the prompt payment of all installments of
interest on said bonds as the same shall become due semi-
annually as aforesaid, and for the purpose of redeeming
said bonds at maturity the Mayor and Council of Crisfield
are hereby authorized and directed to levy annually a spe-
cial tax upon the assessable property of the City of Cris-
field in such sum as may be necessary and sufficient to pay
the interest on said bonds semi-annually and to redeem
Two Thousand Dollars ($2, 000. 00) of said bonds annually
commencing February 1st, 1937, as aforesaid, until the
same have been fully redeemed and retired and no longer
and the said tax hereby authorized to be levied in this sec-
tion shall be in addition to the amount already heretofore
authorized by the Charter of Crisfield and shall be collected
at the same time and in like manner as other taxes levied
in said city are collected.

SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That Chapter 39, of
the Acts of 1935, be and it is hereby repealed.

SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That this Act is
hereby declared to be an emergency law and necessary for
the immediate preservation of the public health and safety,
and being passed upon a yea and nay vote, supported by
three-fifths of all the members elected to each of the two
Houses of the General Assembly, the same shall take ef-
fect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 8, 1936.

CHAPTER 45.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Chapter
64 of the Acts of the Extraordinary Session of 1933,
entitled "An Act to repeal and re-enact, with amend-