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payment and refunding of twenty-four thousand dollars
($24, 000. 00) of the outstanding notes, obligations and
floating indebtedness due and owing to sundry persons,
corporations and banks by the said County Commissioners
of Caroline County.

SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That for the purpose
of securing the prompt payment of all installments of in-
terest on said bonds as the same shall become due semi-
annually as aforesaid, and for the purpose of redeeming
said bonds at maturity, the County Commissioners of Caro-
line County are hereby authorized and directed to levy
annually a tax upon the assessable property of Caroline
County 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 October 1st, 1940, as aforesaid, until the same
have been fully redeemed and retired.

SEC. 6. 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 safety and health,
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 effect
from the date of its passage.

Approved April 8, 1936.

CHAPTER 98.

AN ACT authorizing, empowering and directing the Mayor
and City Council of Cumberland to accept from the prop-
erty owners on Cecil Street, in the City of Cumberland,
Maryland, one-half of the amounts and interest now due
from them for Street and Sidewalk improvements, as
shown on a certain lien filed against them by the Mayor
and City Council of Cumberland upon December 13, 1930,
and duly recorded among the Mechanics! Lien Records
of Allegany County, Maryland, as a full payment and a
full discharge of said improvement liens.

(Vetoed)