The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1910-07-08
PUBLIC LOCAL LAWS.
CHAPTER No. I25.


AN ACT to direct the County Commits
sioners of Frederick County to borrow
money on the Credit of said County to
purchase or condemn real estate and
pay for the erection of a new building
or buildings for public schools in Fred
erick City in said County in the event
the Board of County School Commits
sioners of said County shall determine
to purchase or condemn real estate and
erect such building or buildings in said
city and to issue bonds therefor, and to
levy on the Accessible property in
Frederick County an annual tax suffi-
cient to pay said bonds wher they ma
ture, and to pay the interest thereon as
it becomes due. Whereas the condi-
ton now existing at the public schools
in Frederick City by reason Of the over
crowded conditions of said schools, the
lack of proper ventilation, the made
quacy of means to protect the lives of
the pupils in case of fire, and improper
sanitary provisions. have become al
arming to such an extent as to produce
protests by citizens of said city, and
earnest desire on their part, and on the
part of the Board Of County School
Commissioners of said county. to re-
medy the evils which exist, and whereas
the conditions cannot be properly re-
NEEDED except by the purchase or con-
dcmnation of new site or sites for
schools and the erection of a new build
ing or buildings for the use of said
schools now therefore.
Section BE it enacted by the Gen
eral Assembly of Maryland that in the
event the Board of County Schools Com
missioners of Frederick County shall
determine to purchase or d m n
ground and erect new building or build
ings for the use of the public schools in
Frederick City the County Commission
ers of Frederick County in order to pro-
vide the necessary funds for the purchase
or condemnation of such Ground and the
erection o. such new building or build
ings, and the expenses incident thereto
are hereby directed to borrow money on
the credit of the county to an amount
not exceeding the sum of seventy five
thousand dollars, and to issue bonds
therefor, under the corporate seal of said
County Commissioners, to be signed by
the president of the Board of County
Commissioners and countersigned by the
Clerk thereof in sums of not less than
one hundred dollars and not more than
one thousand dollars, bearing interest
from date OF issue thereof, at the rate of
four and one-half per cent per annum,
and said bonds shall have written or
printed on them distinct reference to
the act directing the issue of same, and
said bonds when issued, shall be exempt
from municipal and county taxation in
Frederick County.
Section And be it enacted, that the
County Commissioners shall cause to be
levied and collected from the assessable
property in Frederick County, tax an
nually which shall be sufficient to pay
the interest on said bonds, and provide a
sinking fund for their redemption at or
before maturity and said tax Shall be
collected in like manner as other taxes
levied in said county are collected and
when collected shall be applied to the
payment of the interest on said bonds
and to sinking fund to redeem said
bonds at or before their maturity.
Section 3-And be it enacted that
said bonds shall be made payable at the
expiration Of thirty years from the date of
issue and shall be redeemable at any time
after the expiration of fifteen years from
the date of issue and they shall be sold
after due advertisement by the County
Commissioners to the highest bidder and
bidders provided however, that none of
said bonds shall be sold for less than par
value.
Section And be it enacted, that the
County Commissioners shall when noti-
fed by the board Of county; school COM
mlssioners OF said county that they de-
sire to avail themselves of the provisions
Of this Act and of the samount of money
they will require for the purposes afore-
said advertise and sell said bonds as
above provided to an amount sufficient to
produce the sum designated by the Board
OF County School Commissioners but IN
no event in excess Of said sum of seventy
1--WE thousand dollars and shall paw over
the proceeds of the sale of said bonds as
received 10 said Board of County School
Commissioners who shall account for the
same and the expenditure thereof in the
same manner as they account for other
monies passing through their hands.
Section 5.-And be it enacted, that this
Act shall take effect from the date of its
passage.
Approved April II, 1910.
AUSTIN L. CROTHERS.
Governor.
ADAM PEOPLES,
Speaker of the House of Delegates.
ARTHUR P. GORMAN, IT.,
President of the Senate.
Office of the Secretary of the Senate.
| Hereby Certify, That the aforegoing
is true copy Of an Act of the General
Assembly of Maryland, passed at the
January Session, 1910.
MAX WAYS,
Secretary of the Senate.