182 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 45

CHAPTER 45.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Section
227 of Article 22 of the Code of Public Local Laws of
Maryland (1930 Edition), title "Washington County",
sub-title "Hagerstown", exempting the purchase of cer-
tain real estate from certain provisions of said section.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Section 227 of Article 22 of the Code of
Public Local Laws of Maryland (1930 Edition), title
"Washington County", sub-title "Hagerstown", be and it
is hereby repealed and re-enacted with amendments to read
as follows:

227. The inhabitants of Hagerstown, in Washington
County, are created a corporation by the name of "The
Mayor and Council of Hagerstown", and by that name shall
have perpetual succession; may sue and be sued; may
have and use a common seal, and possess such other in-
cidents and powers as attach by law to a municipal cor-
poration, and may purchase and hold real, personal and
mixed property for the benefit of said corporation; pro-
vided, however, that the mayor and council shall not pur-
chase or acquire any real estate, unless the said mayor and
council shall first provide by ordinance for said purchase,
and the mode and manner of payment therefor; and all
ordinances for the purchase of real estate shall provide for
submitting the question of said purchase to the qualified
voters of the town at some regular election for the election
of councilmen of said town; and before any such ordinance
shall be submitted to the qualified voters of the town, at
least four weeks' public notice shall be given, by publica-
tion in one or more newspapers of the town, of an inten-
tion to submit said ordinance to the qualified voters of the
town; and said notice shall set forth the ordinance in full,
and the mode and manner of payment proposed; and no
ordinance for the purchase of real estate shall be of any
force or validity unless it shall receive a majority of all
the votes cast at such election. Provided, however, that
nothing herein contained shall require the Mayor and
Council to submit to the qualified voters of the town for
ratification or rejection any ordinance or ordinances for
the purchase of real estate, not exceeding eighty-five acres,
situate along the west side of the Hagerstown and Middle-
burg State Road, about three miles north of the City of
Hagerstown, in Washington County, Maryland, for a "Mu-
nicipal Airport", provided the purchase price thereof shall