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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 435.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Section 123

of Article 2 of the Code of Public Local Laws, title "Anne

Arundel County," sub-title "County Commissioners," as the

same was re-enacted by Chapter 472 of the Acts of 1894,

and by Chapter 98 of the Acts of 1898.

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

County Com-
missioners of

land, That Section 123 of Article 2 of the Code of Public Local
Laws, title "Anne Arundel County," sub-title "County Com-

Anne Arun-
del County,

missioners," as the same was re-enacted by Chapter 472 of the

Md.

Acts of 1894, and by Chapter 98 of the Acts of 1898, be and the

same is hereby repealed and re-enacted with amendments so

as to read as follows :

123. The County Commissioners shall at the usual time of

making the levy upon the taxable property of said county for

Additional

county and State purposes, make such additional rate of levy

rate of levy
for school

as is now or may hereafter be fixed by law, for the support of

purposes.

the public schools of said county, and may, in their discretion,

levy such additional rate as they may deem necessary to pro-

mote the efficiency of the said schools ; such additional levy for

school purposes not to exceed, however, thirty cents on the

hundred dollars, which levy shall be free and clear from all

discounts, insolvencies, commissions or other deductions of any

kind whatsoever ; the school tax so fixed by law and levied in

the discretion of said Commissioners shall be made separate

from the levy for other county and State purposes, and shall

constitute a separate fund, and shall not be used for any other

purpose but that for which it was levied ; and said school taxes

shall be paid to the School Board of said county by the Treas-

urer of said county upon an order of the County Commission-

Not compul-

ers; and, further, that nothing in the provisions of this Act

sory to levy
full rate.

shall be construed to be compulsory upon the County Com-

missioners to levy said full rate of thirty cents, but may be less

if so determined and decided by the said County Commis-

sioners.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect

from the date of its passage.

Approved April 12, 1904.

CHAPTER 436.

AN ACT to incorporate the town of Glen Echo, in Montgom-

ery County, Maryland.