Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-24
ASSEMBLY MOVES
TO AID LAPLATA
Maryland Senate Passes
Bills to Provide Funds
for New School.

By a staff Correspondent OF Inc star.
ANNAPOLIS. Md, March gam
echo of the recent catastrophe at Id
Plata. Md, when the schooinouSe
was blown down by tornado WIN
resultant loss of life, was heard IN the
Senate of the General Assembly OIL
Maryland just before last midnight
when that body took three steps To-
ward aiding in replacing that ouiiu'
ing with one of modern proportions.
The first measure passed Dy the
Senate provides for the payment ny
the county commissioners OF Cnarles
County to the treasurer of the poaru
of education, IS 900 of surplus money
in the fund collected as dog taxes
which is to be used toward construct
ing public school building in or near
the town of La Plata.
The second measure passed proFldes
for the appointment of Il school Dulld-
ing committee and the issuance OF
bonds for the construction of the new
school The building committee OF
the La Plata public school Is named
in the bin as follows: w. Mitchell
Digges, Warren NJ. Albrittain and
Leo X. Farrell. all Of Charles County.
For the purpose of providing funds
for the building Of the school and for
heating, lighting and equipplng IT,
the bill directs the county comnls-
sioners on demand of the building
committee to issue bonds to the limit
of $40, 900. The bills. which now go
to the House of Delegates, are de-
clared to be emergency measures and
to become effective Immediately upon
enactment.
Fund Transfer Asked.
The third step came when the sup
Elemental budget was up for consid-
Grafton. The budget bi-annually car
ries an appropriation of $4,000. pay
able $500 annually, as State en-
dowment for the McDonogh School in
La Plata, a school founded in 1900
from a fund left by a peddler in 1900,
according to Senator Mitchell, and
which by that time had grown to $780,
900. Senator Mitchell explained to the
upper house that the amendment which
he offered provided for the transfer
of this State appropriation to the pro-
posed new La Plata School, if the Nc
Donagh institution closed. He added
that when the new school Is completed
there will be no place for a private
school and the purpose was for the
next two years to turn this subsidy
over to the public school fund, but
only In the event that the private in
|stitution was discontinued
The omnibus bequest bill, which
gives the permission of the General
Assembly of Maryland to certain char
liable and religious organizations in
the State to accept certain requests,
deeds and conveyances of property,
contains four for the Seventh-day Ad
ventists at Takoma Park, Md. They
follow:
To the general conference of seventh.
day adventists corporation to accept
"a deed and conveyance from Elihu c.
Wood and Pearl II. Wood, his wife,
part of lot s, block so. Gilbert's addi
ton to Takoma Park, Montgomery
county; deed and conveyance from f.
l.. Richmond ct al. to parcel of land
in Samuel S. Carroll tract in Takoma
Park, Prince Georges county; deed and
conveyance from G. W. Chase ct al.
to all OF lot and easterly half of lot
s in block 10, Pine Crest addition to
Takona Park. Prince Georges county.
The Columbia Union Conference AS
ISOLATION of Seyenth-day Adyentists
Is authorized to accept deed and con-
veyance of a parcel of land formerly
portion of the Benton Tract in
Takorna Park. Montgomery county.
The bin of the Prince Georges Coun-
ty delegation providing that the ac-
counts of the Washington Suburban