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Section 27. The Mayor and Town Council shall not expend
or contract to expend in any one fiscal year more money than
the amount receivable from taxes and other sources during
the year, except that it may by ordinance passed by unanimous
vote, authorize the issuance of notes or other evidences of in-
debtedness in anticipation of the collection of taxes of the
current year or of special assessments for current expenses
only. Such notes or other evidences of indebtedness shall
mature within thirty days after such taxes become collectible.
The total issue of said notes shall not exceed the total current
taxes anticipated for that year.

Section 28. Any taxes andor instalments of special assess-
ments which shall not be paid within the time provided by
law, shall be certified by the Town Treasurer to the County
Tax Collector and collected, or the property against which
the same are levied, shall be sold, in accordance with the pro-
visions of Chapter 761 of the Acts of the General Assembly of
Maryland, passed at the 1943 Session, and amendments thereto
from time to time.

Section 29. In all cases where any municipal work of what-
ever character is to be done within the corporate limits of
Landover Hills, the estimated cost of which shall exceed Two
Hundred Dollars, the Mayor and Town Council shall exercise
reasonable diligence to obtain two or more bona fide bids to
do said work, and shall in all cases award the contract for
such work to the lowest bidder therefor, reserving at all
times the right to reject any and all bids received for cause.

Section 30. The Mayor and Town Council may, by ordi-
nance, provide for the codification of all ordinances which have
been or may be passed by it, and for the printing of such codi-
fication thereof, and the printed ordinances so issued by the
authority of the Mayor and Town Council may be read in
evidence from the printed codification.

Section 31. A copy of any ordinance or record of the Mayor
and Town Council of Landover Hills, certified by its clerk,
under its seal to be a true copy and the whole of such ordi-
nance or record, shall be received in all Courts as presumptive
legal evidence of the facts therein stated.

Section 32. That for the purpose of determining whether
the citizens of said proposed Town of Landover Hills desire to
incorporate, there shall be held a referendum election on the
17th day of April, 1945, under the supervision of the committee
hereinafter named, the manner and procedure of which shall
be as follows.