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cost of this nursing home hospital and hospital facilities. The nursing
home hospital so constructed shall be provided in the Town of Cris-
field as a sixty-bed nursing home hospital adjoining McCready Hos-
pital in that town, to be known as the Alice Byrd Tawes Nursing
Home and to be on the same grounds as McCready Hospital, and to
have a corridor connecting therewith. For this purpose the County
Commissioners of Somerset County shall levy or appropriate from
the general funds of the county up to a maximum of [one hundred
and fifty thousand dollars ($150,000.00)] two hundred thousand
dollars ($200,000.00) ; or they may (within the limits of any restric-
tion upon their borrowing power) secure the payment of this sum
by the issue of bonds or other certificates of indebtedness, pledging
the full faith and credit of the county to the payment of interest and
principal thereon.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1966.

Approved April 29, 1966.

CHAPTER 272
(Senate Bill 181)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, subsections (a),
(c) and (e) of Section 5 of Article 43A of the Annotated Code of
Maryland (1965 Replacement Volume), title "Higher Education
Loan Program", and to repeal and re-enact Section 7 of said Arti-
cle, amending the eligibility of students to participate in the pro-
gram, the maximum amount of loan authorized to be made or
guaranteed, permitting agreements to be made with the United
States Government and certain private agencies, giving the board
of directors certain additional rule-making powers, and amending
generally the terms and conditions of repayment of loans made or
guaranteed by the Maryland Higher Education Loan Corporation.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That subsections (a), (c) and (e) of Section 5 of Article 43A of the
Annotated Code of Maryland (1965 Replacement Volume), title
"Higher Education Loan Program", be and they are hereby repealed
and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

5.

(a) Make or guarantee loans.—

(1) To lend money, upon such terms and conditions as the board
may prescribe, within the limitations contained in this article, to
persons who are residents of this State and [who are attending or
plan to attend] who have been accepted for enrollment or who are
in good standing at eligible colleges in this State or elsewhere, to as-
sist them in meeting their expenses of higher education; provided,
however, that no such person shall receive any loan or loans [in ex-
cess] of more than one thousand five hundred dollars for any
[school] academic year and that no such person shall receive [a total
of more than five thousand dollars,] said loan or loans for more than
six academic years or their equivalent; and