568                         LAWS OF MARYLAND.                  [CH. 202

Said election shall be conducted as nearly as practicable as
an election for county officers is conducted in all points not
specially provided for in this Act, and on the closing of the
polls the said committee shall canvass said votes and publicly
announce the result of said canvass. In the event that a ma-
jority of the votes cast are for incorporation, this Act shall
immediately become effective, and in the event that a majority
of said votes are against incorporation, it shall be null and void.

SEC. 20. And be it further enacted, That in the event that
this charter is adopted by the citizens of said Fairmount
Heights under the provisions of the referendum above set forth,
then the same committee who conducted the referendum elec-
tion with the same powers of filling vacancies thereon shall on
the first Monday in June, 1931, hold another election for the
five Commissioners provided for herein in the manner and
form prescribed herein for general elections, except that the
said committee shall canvass the votes cast and publicly an-
nounce the result thereof. The five persons having the largest
number of votes shall be declared by said committee as the
first Board of Commissioners for said Town of Fairmount
Heights, and upon their taking the oath herein prescribed shall
become the Board of Commissioners for said town.

SEC. 21. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall
take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 6, 1931.

CHAPTER 202.

AN ACT to authorize and empower the Mayor and Town
Council of Colmar Manor, in Prince George's County, a
municipal corporation, with the approval of the qualified
voters thereof, to construct roadways, alleys, curbs, sidewalks
and gutters in said town; to borrow on the credit of the
town eighty thousand dollars ($80, 000. 00), and to issue
bonds or certificates of indebtedness therefor; to provide
for the liquidation of same and the interest thereon by an
annual front foot assessment on the abutting real property
in said town where such streets, curbs, sidewalks and gutters
are constructed; and to make the principal and interest of
said bonds or certificates of indebtedness the direct obliga-
tion of said town.