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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 220.

AN ACT to authorize and direct the Board of County School

Commissioners of Montgomery County to erect in the town

of Rockville, in said county, a county high school building

and to purchase land for that purpose, and to purchase the

old school building at Kensington, in said county, and equip

same as a manual training school, and to make necessary

repairs to the new school building in said town, and to direct

the County Commissioners of said county to pay for the

same and to borrow money for that purpose and to issue

the bonds of said county for the money so borrowed.

SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-

Authority to

land, That the Board of County School Commissioners of

erect a high
school build-

Montgomery County be and they are hereby authorized and

ing.

directed to erect in the town of Rockville, in Montgomery

County, a suitable and commodious building for a county high

school for said county and to purchase such land in said town

as may be needed for that purpose, and to purchase the old

school building at Kensington, in said county, and equip the

same as a manual training school, and to make necessary re-

pairs to the new school building in said town.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the County Commissioners

Amount to be

of said county be and they are hereby authorized and directed

paid for same.

to pay to the order of the Board of County School Commis-

sioners of said county such sum or sums of money, not exceed-

ing twenty thousand dollars, as shall be needed for the pur-

chase of said land and the erection and proper equipment of

said building, but at least two thousand dollars of such money

shall be used to purchase the old school building at Kensington.

in said county, and equip the same as a manual training school

and to make necessary repairs to the new school building in

said town.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That for the purpose aforesaid

Empowered
to issue bonds
to secure

the said County Commissioners of said county are hereby
authorized, empowered and directed to borrow such sum of

money.

money, not exceeding twenty thousand dollars, as shall be

needed for said purposes, and to secure said money the said

County Commissioners are further authorized and empowered

to issue the bonds of said county for such amount not, how-

ever, exceeding the sum of twenty thousand dollars; but at

least two thousand dollars of said sum of money shall be