448 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Mar. 9

time and passed by yeas and nays"] [Which was read the
first time and referred to Senators Bomberger, Kaufman and
Zihlman. ]

Also House Bill No, 463, entitled "An Act to repeal and
re-enact, with amendments, Section 54 of the Code of Local
Laws of Prince George's county, title 'Bladensburg. ' " [En-
dorsed: "Read the third time and passed by yeas and nays. "]
[Which was read the first time and referred to Senators Hol-
mead, Johnson and Jones. ]

Also House Bill No. 487, entitled "An Act to repeal and
re-enact, with amendments, Chapter 616 of the Acts of the
General Assembly of 1912, relating to the encouragement of
the location of factories, plants and the like in Hagerstown
and elsewhere in Washington county, by the exemption of such
from county and municipal taxation for a limited period. "
[Endorsed: "Read the third time and passed by yeas and
nays. "] [Which was read the first time and referred to
Senators Bomberger, Kaufman and Zihlman. ]

Also House Bill No. 460, entitled "An Act to authorize and
empower the Mayor and Council of Hagerstown to provide
by special or general ordinance requiring all abutting owners
, on any street, highway, lane or alley in Hagerstown or any
part thereof, to pay, as therein set forth, the cost of grading,
making, paving, concreting, macadamizing and curbing, or for
regrading, remaking, repaving, reconcreting, remacadamizing
and recurbing of any such streets, highways, lanes or alleys
of said city, making the cost thereof a lien on said property;
providing for the collection thereof, requiring the Mayor and
Council, in its discretion, to pay for a certain portion of the
costs of the work done and the materials used on said streets,
highways, lanes or alleys, and to provide for the payment
thereof by said city for all gas, water or other companies de-
siring to lay mains in said streets and all persons or corpo-
rations owning property abutting thereon desiring to make
service connection to said mains shall do so within a pre-
scribed time as set out in said ordinance; and for requiring
all railroad companies occupying said streets with its tracks
to grade, make and pave and to regrade, remake and repave
the space between its rails and two feet on the outside thereof
and to maintain the same; providing a penalty for the failure
of said railway companies to comply with the provisions of
said ordinance applicable thereto. " [Endorsed: "Read the
third time and passed by yeas and nays. "] [Which was read
the first time and referred to Senators Bomberger, Kaufman
and. Zihlman. ]