The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1898-09-01
Public Local Law.
CHAPTER 26Q

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 and furnishing one and two room
frame school houses, shall be submitted tC
the voters of said county at the Compression
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, in addition
to the other matter required by law, the
words for the issue of school bonds and
against the issue of school bonds" theaffir-
native Immediately above the negative with
a 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. 2. And be it enacted, That if it shall be
found by the returns of the judges of cleo
ton, that 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 requsi-
ton of the school commissioners of said
county, to issue bonds in 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 rate not exceeding five per cent
per annum, payable semi-annually on the
first day of \ pril and the first dav of October
in each and every year during which said
bonds may run and remain unpaid and the
copons Tor interest on said bonds shall Ibe
receivable by the treasurer of said county in
payment of taxes, and said bonds shall be
exempt from taxation,
SEC. 3. 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-
bic at the pleasure of the said County Com
mlSSlOnerS at or before maturity, but none of
said bonds shall be issued to mature before
the first day of October in 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 tax sufficient to
pay the interest on said bonds. and the prin-
ctpal 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 ). And be it enacted, That said bonds
shall be sold either at public or private sale,
i'll the discretion of the County Commission
ers, i'll such amount not exceeding twenty
thousand dollars, as the needs and necessi-
ties of the county for the purpose named may
require. such necessities to be determined
and made known to said County Commits
S1OnerS 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
ton, 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. &. And be it enacted, That this Act
shall take effect from the date of its passage.
Approved April :. 1898.