22 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 11

portions of the bonded indebtedness of said City may be
retired and cancelled, now, therefore,

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That The Mayor and Council of Hagerstown,
be and they are hereby authorized and empowered to pur-
chase bonds issued by the said Mayor and Council of Ha-
gerstown and now outstanding, at not more than one hun-
dred and ten ($110.00) dollars flat on the one hundred
($100.00) dollars par value thereof, said Bonds to be pur-
chased by said Mayor and Council of Hagerstown with funds
out of the General Fund Account in the hands of the City
Treasurer thereof, which the said Mayor and Council may
deem not necessary for payment of interest on its bonded
indebtedness, redemption of bonds at maturities thereof
and current expenses, said bonds to be purchased and
retired as aforesaid, to be of such amounts and of such
issue or issues as The Mayor and Council by resolution
may from time to time duly determine.

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 having been passed by a yea and nay vote,
supported by three-fifths of all 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, 1935.

CHAPTER 11.

AN ACT to add a new section to Article 22 of the Code of
Public Local Laws of Maryland, (1930 Edition), title
"Washington County," sub-title, "Boonsboro," said new
section to be known as 82A, and to follow immediately
after Section 82 of said Article, authorizing and em-
powering the Burgess and Council of Boonsboro to bor-
row not to exceed twenty-five hundred ($2,500.00) dol-
lars in any one year, for the payment of current ex-
penses, the payment of interest on its existing indebted-
ness or the retirement thereof, and for other Municipal
expenditures.