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Female Seminary to a State high school. [Which was read

and referred to the Committee on Finance. ]

The Chief Clerk of the House of Delegates appeared and
delivered the following message: House Bill No. 127, en-
titled "An Act 'to authorize the County Commissioners of
Somerset county to pay to Lethia Somers Wilson an annual
pension of one hundred and sixty ($160) dollars, and to levy
said amount on the assessable property of said county. "
[Which was read the first time and referred to Senators Par-
sons, Bennett and Harrison. ]

INTRODUCTION OF BILLS.

By the President: Senate Bill No. 188, entitled "An Act to
return to Joseph D. Ritchschild certain auctioneer's license
fees, covering the period from the time of the surrender of the
license to the end of the term for which it was issued. " [Which
was read the first time and referred to the Committee on
Finance. ]

By Mr. Legg: Senate Bill No. 189, entitled "An Act to
authorize and empower the municipal corporation, the Town
Commissioners of Centreville, to borrow,, upon the faith and
credit of said municipal corporation, the sum of eighty-five
hundred dollars ($8, 500), or so much thereof as may be neces-
sary, for the purpose of purchasing an oil burning engine and
electric generator and of installing the same in the electric
light, heat and power plant of said corporation, together with
the necessary equipment for operating said engine and genera-
tor, including oil storage tank and pipe line; to execute the
promissory notes of said municipal corporation for the amount
so borrowed, and, for a period not exceeding four years from
June 1, 1916, to renew said notes as they mature from time
to time; to apply the money collected by said corporation from
the consumers for electric service furnished by said plant,
first to the payment of the expenses of running, maintaining
and repairing said plant and then to the payment of the said
promissory notes and of the renewals thereof, and the interest
to accrue thereon; and, at the time of the annual levy of taxes
in the year 1920, to levy taxes, if necessary, on the assessable
property in the town of Centreville, Maryland, to pay any of
said notes which may then be unpaid; and to sell one of the
steam units now. used in said plant and apply the proceeds of
such sale toward the payment of the cost of said oil burning
engine and electric generator; and declaring that the said in-
debtedness, represented by said promissory notes, shall be