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SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That the Mayor and
City Council of Cumberland is hereby authorized and em-
powered to accept from any Federal or State agency grants
for or in aid of the construction of any public works project
and to make such contracts and execute such instruments
containing such terms, provisions and conditions as in the
discretion of said Mayor and City Council may be necessary,
proper or advisable for the purpose of obtaining or secur-
ing grants or other financial assistance from any Federal
or State agency, pursuant to the Non-Federal Public Works
Acts or other Acts and make such other, further or differ-
ent contracts and to execute all instruments necessary or
convenient in or for the furtherance of any public works
project, and to carry out and perform the terms and condi-
tions of any such contract or instrument.

SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That none of the
provisions of Section 55 of the Charter of Cumberland,
codified as such in Article 1A of the Code of Public Local
Laws of the State of Maryland, as the said section was
repealed and re-enacted with amendments by Chapter 42
of the Acts of 1933 of the General Assembly of Maryland,
shall be applicable to the issue of bonds herein authorized.

SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That any and all
Acts, or parts of Acts, or any part, or parts, of the City
Charter of Cumberland, conflicting in any way herewith,
are hereby repealed insofar and to the extent that the
same shall so conflict.

SEC. 8. And be it further enacted, That this Act is
hereby declared to be an emergency law, 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 of Maryland, the same
shall take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 4, 1936.

CHAPTER 132.

AN ACT to incorporate the town of University Park, in
Prince George's County, Maryland, as a municipal cor-
poration, to provide for the government thereof and to