The Republican., 1898-09-22

AN ACT to enable the qualified voters of
Garrett County to determine by ballot
whether bonds, not to exceed the sum of
twenty thousand dollars, shall be issued
by the County Commissioners Of said
Garrett County, for the purpose OF raising
funds to erect school houses therein.
SECTION |. BE it enacted by the General
Assembly of Maryland, That the question of
whether or not the County Commissioners of
Garrett county shall issue bonds to an
amount not exceeding the sum OF twenty
thousand dollars for the purpose OF erecting,
repairing ana furnishing one and two room
frame school houses shall be submitted to
the voters of said county at the COngreSSiOn-
al election, to be held on the first Tuesday
after the first Monday in November, in the
year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, the
ticket to be voted to be printed on the official
ballot to be used at said elections; said bal
lots shall have printed on them, i'll addition
to the other matter required by law, the
words for the issue of school bOndS.n and
against the issue of school bOnds,n the affir-
native Immediately above the negative with
space to the right, opposite, in which the
voter may designate his choice in the same
manner as if he were voting for candidate,
and the result shall be counted and returned
as other elections returns are counted and
returned.
SEC. 3 And be it enacted, That if it shall be
found by the returns of the judges OF cleo
tion, that a majority of the votes cast on Said
proposition are for the issue of said bonds
then it shall be the duty of the County Com
misSioners of said county, upon the requS-
ton OF the school commissioners of said
county, 10 issue DOHuS Ill an amount not eX
ceeding twenty thousand dollars, in denomi-
nations not less than one hundred dollars
nor more than one thousand dollars each. to
be signed by the president of the Board of
County commissioners, and cOunterSigned
by the clerk of said board; said bonds to bear
interest at a rate not exceeding five per cent.
per annum,. payable semi-annually on the
first day of A pril and the first day of October
in each and every year during which said
bonds may run and remain unpaid, and the
copons for interest on said bonds shall Ebe
10 I1a T
payment of taxes, and said bonds shall be
exempt from taxation.
SEC. g. And be it enacted, That said bonds
shall be issued to mature at such dates as
shall not require the payment in any one
year of more than two thousand dollars of
the principal thereof, and shall be redeema-
BILE at the pleasure Of the said County Com
missionerS at or before maturity, but none OF
said bonds shall be issued TO mature before
the first day of October i'll the year nineteen
hundred and eighteen.
SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That to redeem
said bonds, the County Commissioners of
Garrett county shall annually levy upon the
property of said county q tax sufficient to
pay the interest on said bonds and the prin-
cipal of such portions as may mature in each
and every year after the date of their issue,
and the said levy shall be designated as
school house funds.
SEC. 5. And be it enacted That said bonds
shall be sold either at public or private sale,
in the discretion of the County Commission
ers, in such amount not exceeding twenty
thousand dollars, as the needs and neceSsf-
ties of the county for the purpose named may
require, such necessities to be determined
and made known to said County Commits
sioners by the said Board of School Commits
sioners of said county, and the proceeds
arising from such sale or sales TO be paid over
by the said County Commissioners to the
treasurer of the Board OF School Commission
ers of said county, who shall apply said
proceeds under the direction Of the said
Board OF School Commissioners to the cree
tion, repairing and furnishing one and two
room frame school house buildings, as such
Board of School Commissioners may contract
for and for no other purpose.
SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That this Act
shall take effect from the date Of its passage.
Approved April Z, 1898.