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If meeting determine against adopting provisions of this Act, it shall be adjourned sine die, not to be again convened for three years from time of adjournment;
at the end of every three years a fresh application may be made and meeting held on the same conditions.
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9. If such meeting shall determine against adopting the said provisions, such meeting shall adjourn sine die, and it shall not be competent for any householders within the same city, borough, or town to make any such application as has been herein-before described, nor shall any such orders and directions as have been described issue for convening a like meeting within the same city, borough, or town, for and during the term of three years computed from the term of adjournment aforesaid; and at and after the completion of such term it shall become again competent to make such application, and thereon to issue such orders and directions as aforesaid; provided that if at any time after the completion of such term of three years a second application should me made, and such orders and directions a second time issued, and a meeting thereupon convened, and that such second meeting should in like manner determine against adopting the provisions of this Act, such meeting shall adjourn sine die, and it shall not be lawful to make such application as has been herein-before described, nor thereupon issue such orders and directions, for and during another term of three years, to be computed from the time of adjournment of such second meeting, and so for ever toties quoties; it being hereby intended, and it is hereby enacted, that no such application shall be made, nor such orders and directions issued, nor meeting thereupon convened, as has been herein-before described, within any such city, borough, or town, for and during the space of three years from the time of the adjournment of any former meeting of the like nature, such former meeting having determined against the adoption of the provisions of this Act: Provided also, that upon the completion of such term of three years from any such adjournment, the powers, ability, competency, authority, and duties by this Act created or conferred, for the purpose of bringing the provisions of this Act into operation within any such city, borough, or town, shall revive and be restored, and be of the same force, effect, validity, and obligation, as if no former meeting had been at any time convened.
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