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ville, $270,000; for the Maryland Hospital for the Insane at
Catonsville, $80,000; for the Maryland Asylum and Training
School for Feeble-minded at Owings Mills, $150,000; for the
Hospital for the Negro Insane, $100,000; and to provide for
the appointment of a Board of Managers for the said Negro
Hospital.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the Board of Public Works is hereby authorized
and directed to issue a loan in the sum of six hundred thou-
sand dollars ($600,000) for the purpose of constructing addi-
tional buildings for the care of the insane at Springfield State
Hospital at Sykesville; at the Maryland Hospital for the In-
sane at Catonsville; at the Maryland Asylum and Training
School for the Feeble-Minded at Owings Mills, and for the
purchase of land and the erection of a hosptial for the negro
insane" of Maryland by the Board of Managers, and to provide
for the appointment of a Board of Managers for the said
Negro Hospital.

SEC. 2. Be it further enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That for the purpose of providing for the expendi-
tures to be incurred in the construction of the hospital and ad-
ditional buildings at the three hospitals herein named and the
further purpose of the purchase of the necessary land and the
erection and construction of a "Hospital for the Negro Insane
of the State of Maryland," by the Board of Managers thereof,
as herein provided, a loan is hereby created to be called "The
State Insane Hospital Loan," to the amount of six hundred
thousand dollars ($600,000), said loan shall bear dates as fol-
lows: Three hundred thousand dollars ($300,000) to be known
as Series "A," January 1, 1911; three hundred thousand dol-
lars ($300,000), to be known as Series "B," July 1, 1911, and
shall bear interest at a rate to be fixed by the Governor, the
Comptroller and Treasurer of this State, or a majority of them,
not to exceed four per cent. (4%) per annum, payable on the
first days of January and July of each year; and the said loan
and every part thereof and the interest payable thereon shall
be and remain exempt from State, county and municipal taxa-
tion; and the principal amount of the said loan shall be pay-
able fifteen years after date of said respective Series, but shall
be redeemed at the pleasure of the State of Maryland after
ten (10) years ffom the date of issue.

SEC. 3. Be it further enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the Governor, Comptroller and Treasurer, or
a majority of them, are hereby authorized, empowered and di-
rected to have prepared proper certificates of indebtedness of
the State, in good and sufficient form to aggregate the amount