THEODORE R. McKELDIN, GOVERNOR                   707

(b)    The Board of Supervisors of Elections, and its clerks, judges
of election and subordinates, shall tally the results of the votes cast
for candidates for office, and shall certify them along with the tally
on the question of incorporation, to the Board of County Commis-
sioners or County Council.

(c)    Any person who receives a plurality of the votes cast for any
particular office, whether or not he receives a majority of all the
votes cast for that office, shall be publicly proclaimed by the Board
or Council to have been elected thereto. The persons so named by
proclamation shall at the effective time for the charter become the
several respective officers of the municipal corporation. Each officer
shall continue to hold such position until regularly superseded by a
new elective officer, elected as may be provided in the charter of the
municipal corporation; and during such period he shall be taken and
accepted in all respects as the elected officer of the municipal corpora-
tion in his respective position, with the powers, authority and duties
as set forth and prescribed in the charter.

(d)    If no person is nominated for an off ice in the government of
the municipal corporation, or if a person elected thereto is unable to
assume his office, or if for any other reason no person is elected to
fill an office, the Board of County Commissioners or County Council
shall name a resident of the particular area to the office, and upon
assuming it he shall hold it in all respects as if regularly elected there-
to as in this section provided.

(e)    No person shall be either nominated or elected to any office
in the government of the municipal corporation unless he qualifies
under whatever requirements may be specified for that office accord-
ing to the charter proposed for the municipal corporation.

SO. (Expenses.) The expenses of the original election for candi-
dates for office shall be defrayed by the Board of County Commis-
sioners or the County Council, but if the referendum vote results in
incorporation, the municipal corporation shall repay the total amount
of such expenses to the Board or Council, ivithin one year following
the effective date of the incorporation.

CREATION OF MUNICIPAL PUBLIC DEBT

31. EVERY MUNICIPAL CORPORATION SHALL HAVE THE
POWER UNDER THIS SUB-HEADING TO BORROW MONEY
FOR ANY PROPER PUBLIC PURPOSE AND TO EVI-
DENCE SUCH BORROWING BY THE ISSUE AND SALE
OF ITS GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS IN THE MANNER
HEREIN PRESCRIBED, UNLESS THE CHARTER OF SAID
MUNICIPAL CORPORATION SHALL PROVIDE A DIFFER-
ENT PROCEDURE FOR THE BORROWING OF MONEY OR
SHALL BE AMENDED SO TO PROVIDE IN THE MANNER SET
FORTH IN THIS SUB-TITLE. CHARTER AMENDMENTS FOR
SUCH PURPOSE ARE HEREBY AUTHORIZED. NOTWITH-
STANDING THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SUB-HEADING OR OF
ANY SUCH CHARTER, EVERY SUCH MUNICIPAL CORPORA-
TION SHALL ALSO HAVE THE AUTHORITY TO EXERCISE
ALL POWERS CONFERRED UPON MUNICIPAL CORPORA-
TIONS BY SECTIONS 365 TO 405, INCLUSIVE, OF ARTICLE 43
OF THIS CODE, TITLE "HEALTH," SUB-TITLE "WATER, ICE