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known as "St. Michaels Improvement Fund" in the name of
the Commissioners of St. Michaels and shall be invested in
United States or State of Maryland [Registered] Bonds,
or Securities and the income from this fund shall be added
to the fund. No part of this fund shall be expended for
any public improvement unless and until a petition shall
be presented to the Commissioners of St. Michaels, at least
thirty (30) days before the first Monday in April, bearing
at least fifty (50) signatures of taxpayers of said town and
when such petition is so submitted to said Commissioners,
they shall submit the same to the qualified voters of the
town, on the first Monday of April following the receipt of
such petition, for the approval or rejection of the voters of
said town. Provided, however, that no part of said fund
shall be expended until at least fifty-one per cent (51%) of
the registered qualified voters of said town shall have voted
their approval for such expenditure[. ], unless the expendi-
ture is made by the Commissioners of St. Michaels under
the provisions of Section 6 of Chapter 427 of the Acts of the
General Assembly of Maryland of 1947. The Commission-
ers of St. Michaels are hereby authorized and directed to
add the income from the investment of the [Sixty Thousand
Dollars ($60, 000. 00)] Forty Thousand Dollars ($40, 000. 00)
Sinking Fund created by Section 489A to the St. Michaels
Improvement Fund.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act is
hereby declared to be an emergency law and necessary for
the immediate preservation of the public health and safety
and having been passed upon by yea and nay vote, sup-
ported 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 February 25, 1953.

CHAPTER 11
(House Bill 113)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section
174 of the Harford County Code (1942 Edition), being

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