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(e) Any and all other acts or things which such mu-
nicipality or any officer thereof is empowered under this or
any other Act to perform or do, and not inconsistent with
the Constitution of Maryland.

SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That any contract
for the construction of any public works project or part
thereof may be awarded upon any day at least five days
(excluding Sundays) after at least one publication of a
notice requesting bids upon such contract inserted in a
newspaper circulating in the municipality, and such other
notice, if any, as the governing body of the municipality
may determine to be desirable. If before the execution of
any such contract the governing body shall determine to
submit the authorization of the public works project or
projects, or the issuance of the bonds therefor, or the levy
of a tax to pay the bonds to a referendum or an election
(either general, special or primary), the governing body
of the municipality may, notwithstanding the provisions of
any other law, provide for such referendum or vote after
notice published at least once in a newspaper circulating in
the municipality at least five days (excluding Sundays)
prior to such referendum or election and no other notice
shall be required. Such referendum or election shall be
held only if a referendum or election for the municipality
concerned shall now be required by law, or in the event the
governing body of said municipality shall in its sole discre-
tion determine to submit the matter for sucl\ referendum
or election. Such referendum or election shall be held in
substantial compliance with the applicable provisions of
the existing general or local laws consistent with the pro-
visions of this Act. If such referendum or election be held,
then the governing body shall be bound by the results
thereof.

SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That any public
works project or projects executed under the provisions of
this Act may, in the sole discretion of the governing body
of the municipality, be undertaken as a public works pro-
ject wholly at the expense of the municipality at large, not-
withstanding the provisions of any other law requiring a
public works project to be undertaken under such other
law wholly or in part at the expense of the property espe-
cially benefitted thereby. Whenever any such public works
project or projects are to be paid for in the manner pro-
vided in Section 2, sub-section (e) of this Act, by special
assessments levied against the property to be benefitted,