ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR.                  639

treasurer of the said Bethesda Fire Department, Inc., or its
successor or successors, upon the said treasurer giving a cor-
porate bond to said Board of County Commissioners, to be
. approved by the judge of the Circuit Court for said county in
a penal sum to be fixed by said judge, conditioned upon the
faithful discharge of the duties of said treasurer. From the
money so received the treasurer of the said Bethesda Fire De-
partment, Inc., its successors or successor shall pay all proper
costs, expenses, claims and demands, including salaries to fire-
men and such principal and interest on any encumbrances on
the real estate owned by said Fire Department as may be due,
that are necessary to properly establish, maintain and operate
said Fire Department. Should the tax so collected in any one
year be inadequate to defray the said costs, expenses, claims
and demands, such deficiency may be added to the amount
required for the next ensuing year and levied and collected in
the next year's taxes.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act is hereby
declared to be an emergency law and necessary for the imme-
diate preservation of the public health and safety, and being
passed upon a yea and nay vote, supported by three-fifths of
all of the 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 17, 1931.

CHAPTER 238.

AN ACT to authorize the Mayor and Council of Federalsburg
to borrow on the faith and credit of the town of Federals-
burg seventy-two thousand dollars ($72, 000) and to issue
coupon bonds therefor and to sell the same, the proceeds aris-
ing from the sale thereof to be applied to the payment and
liquidation of certain outstanding notes, obligations and float-
ing indebtedness due and owing by the said Mayor and Coun-
cil of Federalsburg, and to provide for the levying of a tax
annually upon the assessable property of said town to pay
interest thereon and for the redemption and payment of said
bonds as the same shall fall due.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the Mayor and Council of Federalsburg be and is