The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1920-10-28


shall be entitled to no other perqui-
sites or compensation. In case OF a
vacancy in the Office of Clerk of any
of said Courts, the Judges of said Su-
preme Bench of Baltimore City shall
have power to fill such vacancy until
| the general election of Delegates to
the General Assembly to be held next
| thereafter, when a Clerk of said Court
shall be elected to serve for six years
thereafter, and the provisions of this
Article in relation to the appointment
of Deputies by the Clerks of the Cir
cult Courts in the counties shall apply
to the Clerks of the Courts in Balti-
more City.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted
by the authority aforesaid, That the
said foregoing section hereby propos-
ed as an amendment to the Constitu-
| ton, shall, at the next election for
members of Congress to be held on the
| Tuesday next after the first Monday
! in the month of November nineteen
| hundred and twenty (1920), be sub
mitted to the legal and qualihed voters
thereof for their adoption or rejec-
| ton, in pursuance of the direction con-
tanned in Article IA of the Constitu-
ton of this State; and at the said cleo
ton the vote on said proposed amend
ment to the Constitution shall be by
ballot, and upon each ballot there
shall be written or printed the words
For Constitutional Amendment" and
against Constitutional Amendment
as now provided by law, and immedi-
ately after said election due returns
shall be made to the Governor of the
vote for and against said proposed
amendment, as directed by the said
Article IA of the said Constitution.
Also for the Bond Issue, against
the Bond Issue, said proposed bond is
sue for the purpose Of empowering
and directing the County Commission
ers of Garrett County to borrow mon
ey on the credit of Garrett county for
school purposes, being as follows:
| AN ACT to empower and direct the
| County Commissioners of Garrett
County to borrow money on the
credit of said county for the purpose
of erecting suitable public school
buildings in the county of Garrett
and heating, furnishing and equip
ping the same, and to purchase or
condemn real estate for the erection
of the same, and for the purpose of
repairing and heating public school
buildings in said county, and to
issue bonds for the payment of said
money, and to levy taxes upon the
assessible property of said county
to redeem such bonds and to pay
the interest thereon, to refer said
question to the voters of Garrett
County.
Section /. Be it enacted by the
General Assembly of Maryland, That
for the purpose of erecting public
school buildings in the county of Gar
rett and for the purpose of heating,
furnishing and equipping the same,
and for the purpose Of purchasing or
condemning real estate for the cree
| ton of the same and for the purpose
of repairing and heating public school
building in said county, the County
Commissioners for Garrett County, be
and they are hereby authorized, en-
powered and directed to borrow money
on the credit of said county to an
| amount not exceeding two hundred
| thousand dollars, and to issue coupon
bonds therefor, the said bonds to be in
the sum of one thousand dollars each,
and to be signed by the president of
the Board OF County Commissioners
for Garrett County,an countersigned
by the Clerk of said board with the
corporate seal of said County Com
missioners attached to every bond so
issued; said bonds to be dated the
first day of July, 1920, and to bear
interest at a rate not exceeding five
per cent? per annum, payable semi
annually on the first day of January
and the first day of July in each and
every year until the maturity thereof,
and the said bonds shall mature as
follows: Ten thousand dollars thereof
on July l, 1925, and annually there
after the sum of ten thousand dollars
in every year until all of said bonds
shall have matured.
Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That said
bonds shall have written or printed on
them a distinct reference to the act
directing the issue of the same, and
that said bonds when issued shall be
exemp from municipal and county
taxation in Garrett county, and they
shall be sold after due advertisement
by the County Commissioners to the
highest bidder or bidders, provided,
however, that none of said bonds shall
be sold at less than par value.
Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That the
said County Commissioners for Gar
rett County shall levy annually upon
the accessible property of said county
a tax sufficient to pay the interest
upon said bonds and in the year 1925
they shall levy the sum of ten thous-
and dollars to meet the first maturing
bonds issued, and annually thereafter
the said County Commissioners shall
levy upon the assessable property of
said county the sum of ten thousand
dollars for the payment of such bonds
as annually mature until the maturity
of the last bond by this Act authorized
to be issued.
Sec. A.. And be it enacted, That the
Clerk of the County Commissioners Of
Garrett county shall record the said
bonds when the same are sold showing
to whom the same were sold, what
price was obtained therefor, the serial
number thereof and shall keep a rec
ord upon the books of said County
Commissioners of all bonds paid.
Sec. 5. And be it enacted, That the
County Commissioners of Garrett
County, shall, when notified by the
County Board of Education of said
county that they desire to avail them
selves of the provisions of this act and