The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1910-07-22
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 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 Assessable PROPERTY in
Frederick County an annual tax sutfi-
cient 10 pay said bonds wheE 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. 10 re-
medy the evils which exist, and whereas
the conditions cannot be properly re-
NEEDED except by the purchase or con-
demnation of a new site or sites for
schools and the erection of 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 n m II
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 or
the credit of the county to an amount
not exceeding the sum of seventy five
thousand dollars, and to issue bond.
therefor. under the corporate seal of sale
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 thai
one hundred dollars and not more thar
one thousand dollars, bearing interes
from date OF issue thereof, at the rate o
four and one-half per cent per annum
and said bonds shall have written O
printed on them a distinct reference t
the act directing the issue OF same, anC
said bonds when issued, shall be exemp
from municipal and county taxation il
Frederick County.
Section 2-And be it enacted that tn,
County Commissioners shall cause to b.
levied and collected from the assessabl
property in Frederick County, tax an
nually which shall be sufficient to pa
the interest on said bonds, and provide
sinking fund for their redemption at o
before maturity and said tax shall b
collected in like manner as other take
levied in said county are collected an,
when collected shall be applied to tn
payment Of the interest on said bond
and to a sinking fund to redeem sal
bonds at or before their maturity
Section 3-And be it enacted tina
said bonds shall be made payable at tn
expiration OF thirty years from the date c
issue and shall be redeemable at any tim
after the expiration of fifteen years fror
the date of issue and they shall be sol
after due advertisement by the Count
Commissioners to the highest bidder an
bidders provided however, that none c
said bonds shall be sold for less than pa
value.
Section And be it enacted, that tn
County Commissioners shall when not
fied by the board Of countyischool CON
missioners OF said county that they de
sire to avail themselves of the provision
of this Act and of the :amount of none
they will require for the purposes afore
said advertise and sell said bonds a
above provided to an amount sufficient t
produce the sum designated by the Boar,
OF County School Commissioners, but II
no event in excess of said sum of seventy
five thousand dollars and shall pay owe
the proceeds of the sale of said bonds a
received to said Board of County Schoo
Commissioners who shall account for the
ootiN diih lilC CA pChulluiC tlGICOl III Tux
same manner as they account for othe
monies passing through their hands.
Section 5.-And be it enacted, that thi.
Act shall take effect from the date of it.
passage.
Approved April II, 1910.
AUSTIN l.. CROTHERS,
Governor.
ADAM PEOPLES,
Speaker of the House of Delegates
ARTHUR P. GORMAN, Jr.,
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.
CHAPTER No. I52.