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Mayor and Town Council may levy sufficient funds to meet
the anticipated expenses of the town until the next year's
tax money is available. Such taxes shall be due and payable
on the first day of April and shall be in default after the first
day of October of each year and shall thereafter bear in-
terest at the rate of 1% per month until paid, which taxes
shall be a first lien on the property assessed.

SEC. 26. 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, including surplus revenue from preceding years,
except that it may by ordinance passed by unanimous vote,
authorize the issuance of notes or other evidences of indebted-
ness 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.

SEC. 27. Any taxes and/or 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.

SEC. 28. In all cases where any municipal work of what-
ever character is to be done within the corporate limits of
Forest Heights, 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 responsible bidder therefor, reserving
at all times the right to reject any and all bids received for
cause, in the opinion of Mayor and Town Council.

SEC. 29. The Mayor and Town Council may, by ordinance,
provide for the codification of all ordinances which have been
or may be passed by it, and for the printing of such codifica-
tion 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.

SEC. 30. A copy of any ordinance or record of the Mayor
and Town Council of Forest Heights, certified by its clerk,