278 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 129

SEC. 2. 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 by 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 29, 1936.

CHAPTER 129.

AN ACT to authorize and empower the Town Commission-
ers of Centreville, a municipal corporation, to borrow
upon the faith and credit of said municipal corporation
the sum of Eight Thousand Dollars ($8, 000. 00), or so
much thereof as may be necessary f or the purpose of
purchasing the old Queen Anne's National Bank Build-
ing, situate on Lawyers Row in the town of Centreville,
Queen Anne's County, State of Maryland, to be used as
the town office building; to execute and deliver the prom-
issory notes of said municipal corporation with interest
for the amount so borrowed or which may be borrowed,
and to renew said note or notes from time to time for a
period not extending beyond October 1st, 1941.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the Town Commissioners of Centreville, a
municipal corporation, be and it is hereby authorized and
empowered to borrow upon the faith and credit of said
municipal corporation the sum of Eight Thousand Dollars
($8, 000. 00), or so much thereof as may be necessary for
the purpose of purchasing the old Queen Anne's National
Bank Building, situate on Lawyers Row in the town of Cen-
treville, Queen Anne's County, State of Maryland, to be
used as the town office building; said note or notes shall be
drawn in such amount or amounts as said municipal cor-
poration shall in its discretion determine but the total
amount of said promissory note or notes shall not exceed
Eight Thousand Dollars, and the said municipal corpora-
tion, the Town Commissioners of Centreville, is hereby
authorized and empowered, for and during the period not
extending longer than October 1st, 1941, to renew said
promissory note or notes as they mature from time to