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the immediate relief and the protection of the inhabitants of
the City of Frostburg during such emergency, not to exceed
in the aggregate, however, the sum of Twenty Thousand Dol-
lars; provided, however, that if said Mayor and City Council
shall decide that an emergency does exist, it shall pass a
resolution or ordinance so stating, and thereafter it shall file
a petition in the Circuit Court for Allegany County, setting
forth the existence of such emergency, its nature, the esti-
mated amount of money needed for its relief and the pro-
posed means of repayment. Upon the filing of such petition,
it shall be the duty of any Judge of said Court, to whom such
petition shall be presented, to forthwith pass an order direct-
ing that at least five days' notice of the filing of such petition,
and of its substance, object and purpose, be immediately given
by publication thereof in one or more newspapers published
in the City of Frostburg, and fixing a time to be set forth
in said notice for a hearing thereon in said Court as soon
thereafter as may be, at which hearing any citizen who is
a taxpayer may appear and be heard. The proceedings in
reference thereto at such hearing shall be informal; and,
if after such hearing, the Court shall pass an Order author-
izing the borrowing of such sum or sums of money as the
Court may deem adequate and proper to meet the emergency,
thereupon the said Mayor and City Council shall be author-
ized to borrow the same and to pledge the credit of the City
to the amount specified by the Court in its Order. There
shall be no appeal from the finding of the Circuit Court.

The above provisions are not to be deemed as affecting in
any way the validity of any loans heretofore made to the
Mayor and Councilmen of Frostburg but any such loans still
remaining unpaid may be renewed or paid in any of the
manners herein provided.

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 having
been passed upon by yea and nay vote, supported by three-
fifths of all the members elected to each of the two Houses of
the General Assembly of Maryland, the same shall take effect
from the date of its passage.

Approved March 8, 1945.

CHAPTER 202.
(House Bill 342)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, paragraphs
A and D of Section 6 of Article 2B of the 1943 Supplement