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and which are due in 1931, and the issuance of which said notes
was authorized under the provisions of Chapter 64 of the Acts
of 1929 of the General Assembly of Maryland, and, third, to the
payment and refunding of other promissory notes, obligations
and floating debts aggregating twenty-two thousand dollars
($22, 000) due and owing unto sundry persons, corporations or
banks by said municipal corporation.

SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That for the purpose of
securing the prompt payment of all instalments of interest on
said bonds as the same shall become due semi-amiually as afore-
said, and for the purpose of redeeming said bonds at maturity
the Mayor and Council of Federalsburg are hereby authorized
and directed to levy annually a special tax upon the assessable
property of the town of Federalsburg in such sum as may be
necessary and sufficient to pay the interest on said bonds semi-
annually and to redeem three thousand dollars ($3, 000) of said!
bonds annually commencing May 1st, 1936, as aforesaid, until
the same have been fully redeemed and retired, and the said
special tax hereby authorized to be levied in this section shall be-
in addition to the amount already heretofore authorized by the
Charter of Federalsburg and shall be collected at the same time
and in like manner as other taxes levied in said town are col-
lected, and that upon the redemption of all of said bonds and
the payment of the interest thereon as aforesaid, then this special
tax herein provided for shall cease.

SEC. 6. 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 safety and health, and being
passed upon a yea and nay vote, supported by three-fifths of all
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 239.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 55 of
Article 33 of the Code of Public General Laws, entitled "Elec-
tions, " sub-title "Nominations, " as the said section was
amended by Chapter 240 of the Acts of the General Assembly
of 1927, so as to change the time within which certificates of
nomination shall be filed.
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