The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1914-07-24
Friday, July 24th, 1914
Public Local Laws
published by authority
CHAPTER SO7.

CdAG L En- SUI.
AN ACT to provide for the erection of
public school house in Capitol
Heights, Prince Georges County,
Maryland.
Section 1 Be it enacted by the Gen
eral Assembly of Maryland, That the
School Board of Prince Georges Coun-
ty is hereby authorized and directed to
purchase lot or lots and erect and fur
nisn in the town of Capitol Heights,
Eighteenth District, Prince Georges
County, Maryland, public school
building to be used for public school
Heights and its vicinity, free from any
charges for instruction therein what
soever.
Section g And be it enacted, That
. for the purpose of paying for said lot
or lots and for the erection and furnish
ing. of said public school building, the
School Commissioners for Prince
Georges County, are hereby authorized
and directed to borrow on the endorse
ment of the County Commissioners of
Prince Georges County, who are hereby
directed to endorse such bonds on the
faith and credit of said County, al
amount not exceeding the sum of TWEEN
ty thousand dollars and to issue coupon
bonds therefor in sums of not less tnan
one hundred dollars ($100) and not
more than. one thousand ($1,00O dollars
each, tofbe signed by the President OF
said Board of School Commissioners,
and countersigned by the County Sup
erintendent of Schools with the seal OF
said Board attached, and to be register
ed by the said County Superintendent
of Schools of Prince Georges County
in separate book kept for that purpose,
and said bonds shall bear interest at
the rate of five per cent, per annum,
payable semi annually on the first day
of May and the first day of November
each year until said bonds shall be paid,
and said bonds shall be forever exempt
from all taxation for any purpose, and
shall have printed on them: reference
to this Act as authorizing the issue
thereof"
SECTION 3. And be it enacted,
That the County Commissioners for
Prince Georges County, are hereby
authorized and directed to levy each
and every year, as a separate fund, a
sufficient amount of moneyto meet the
interest and to create sinking fund
to pay the principal of said bonds as
they mature until the last of said bonds
issued under this Act shall have been
paid and cancelled
SEC. 4. And be il enacted, That the
first bonds issued under this Act shall
: be dated the first day of May, 1914; and
be payable, as to principal, in thirty
years from the date of their Issue; anG
said bonds shall be advertised for sale
In two daily newspapers published il
the City of Baltimore, to be selected by
the School Board, and sold to the high
est bidder for cash and for not less
than their face value by the School,
Commissioners of Prince Georges
County.
SEC 5. And be it enacted, That the
County School Commissioners of Prince
Georges County shall annually deposi.
in some savings Institution in that State
OF Maryland, on interest, sufficient
amount-of money to create sinking
fund for the redemption of said bonds
at their maturity, and are hereby author
lied and empowered to purchase from
the proceeds of said sinking fund any
OF the said bonds as may be offered for
sale; and upon the purchase of any
such bonds or the redemption of same
at maturity, the County School Com
missioners shall have said bond or
bonds Immediately cancelled by stamp
ing across their face the word Can
ceiled," and no portion of said sinking
fund SO set apart shall ever be diverted
to any other purpose than to the
liquidation of said bonds and. should
the said Superintendent or the County
School Commissioners or any other
person having charge of said sinking
fund, suffer or permit the same or any
part thereof to be diverted from or
applied to any other purpose than the
Investment thereof for the purchase of
said bonds, and the. purchase and re-
demption of the same, then the person
or party so offending shall be deemed
guilty of a misdemeanor and upon
conviction thereof shall be subjected to
line of not less than twice the amount
so misapplied or diverted.
SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the
County Superintendent of Schools shall
keep separate account of the money
applied each year to the payment of in
terest on said bonds, as well as the
amount of money deposited each year
to the creation and support of the sink
ing fund to meet the principal of said
bonds at maturity
SECTION 7. And be it enacted,
That>the money arising from the sale
of said bonds as provided in said Sec
ton of this Act shall be paid to the
Superintendent of Schools of Prince
Georges County, and that it may be
applied to- the purpose set forth in this
Acts, the funds so realized shall be
paid by the said County Superintendent
of Schools to the contractor or cCntrac-
tors or architect employed by the said
School Board in accordance with the
terms of their said contract, upon the
order of said School Board, such sum
or sums of money as such contractor or
contractors are entitled to liz the per
Torrance of their contracts, and he
shall pay the cost of plans and specifi-
cations of the work proposed to be
done, the salary of the supervising
architect and such other expenses as
may be incurred.
" SEC. S. And be it enacted, That this
Act shall take effect from the date OF
its passage.
>Approsed April 10, 1914.
P. L. GOLDSBOROUGH,
Governor.
JESSE D. PRICE.
President of the Senate
JAMES MCC. Triple,
Speaker of the House of Delegates
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, 1914.
JOHN r. SULLIVAN,
Secretary of The Senate. |
CHAPTER S57.
AN ACT providing for the selection
and the purchase of a site and for |
= the construction of a heating appara-
tus and equipment therefor to be built !
within the radius of mile of the Balti-
more & Ohio Railroad Station at River
dale, Prince Georges County, Mary
land, and to authorize and require the
Board of County School Commission
ers of said County to torrow money for
such purpose by the issuing of bonds,
to be endorsed by the County Comm
issioners of Prince Georges County,
and to authorize the County Comm
issioners to levy taxes on the assess
able property of said County to re-