HARRY W. NICE, GOVERNOR. 509

Section 444-A. The County Commissioners of Harford
County are hereby authorized and empowered to sell any
and all land belonging to the County which has been or may
hereafter become unnecessary for use by said County for
road purposes by reason of the construction, improvement
or relocation of state or county roads in said County. Said
land to be sold in such manner, at such prices and upon
such terms as the said County Commissioners may deter-
mine, provided the same are fair and reasonable; and the
said County Commissioners are hereby empowered to give
a good and sufficient deed to the purchaser or purchasers
of the land so sold; and be it further provided that the
proceeds derived from the sale thereof be turned over to
the County Treasurer of Harford County, to be deposited
in his name as such Treasurer and to be disposed of as by
law directed.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall
become effective June 1st, 1935.

Approved May 17, 1935.

CHAPTER 252.

AN ACT to authorize and empower the Burgess and Com-
missioners of Walkersville, a municipal corporation of
the State of Maryland, to purchase all of the capital stock,
property, real and personal, rights, franchises, Charter
powers and other assets of The Walkersville Water Com-
pany, a body corporate of the State of Maryland, for a
sum of money not exceeding Twenty-Five Thousand Dol-
lars ($25, 000. 00), to issue and sell serial coupon bonds of
said municipal corporation in a sum of money not exceed-
ing Twenty-Five Thousand Dollars, ($25, 000. 00), par
value, the proceeds therefrom to be used for the purpose
of making such purchase, and to provide for the payment
of the interest and principal of said bonds as the same
shall fall due and become payable, and after having ac-
quired the same, to make such improvements, extensions
and repairs to said Water System as it may think proper;
provided that the purchase of said Water Company and
the issuance of said bonds shall receive the assent of a
majority of the qualified voters of Walkersville, voting
thereon, at a general or special election, before such pur-
chase is made and said bonds issued.