HERBERT R. O'CONOR, GOVERNOR. 1855

mission shall likewise provide for a similar audit to accom-
pany and be part of their annual report or receipts and ex-
penditures covering the preceding calendar year to the Mayor
and City Council made each year on or as soon as possible
after February 1st.

FORFEITURE OF CHARTER

SEC. 139. Neglect or non-use of any provision of this Char-
ter shall not operate as a forfeiture thereof.

INCONSISTENCIES

SEC. 140. That all acts and parts of acts, whether public
general or public local or special, inconsistent with the pro-
visions of this Charter, be and they are hereby repealed to the
extent of such inconsistency; but nothing in this Act con-
tained is intended or shall be taken or construed as relieving
the Mayor and City Council of Havre de Grace or the
Municipal Utilities Commission from any and all provisions
of Chapter 180 of the Acts of the General Assembly of Mary-
land of 1910, known as the Public Service Commission Law,
or any amendments thereto.

SEC. 141. That if any one or more sections, clauses, sen-
tences or parts of this Charter shall for any reason be ques-
tioned in any Court, and shall be adjudged unconstitutional
or invalid, such judgment shall not affect, impair or invalidate
the remaining provisions thereof but shall be confined in its
operation to the specific provisions so held unconstitutional
or invalid and the inapplicability or invalidity of any section,
clause or provision of this Charter in any one or more in-
stances shall not be taken to affect or prejudice in any way its
applicability or validity in any other instance.

EMERGENCY ACT

SEC. 142. And be it further enacted, That this Act is here-
by declared to be an emergency law and necessary for the im-
mediate preservation of the public health and safety and hav-
ing been passed by 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 May 29, 1941.