1076 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [Ch. 691]

of obtaining deeper water, so as to admit of the erection of
houses and wharves along the same.

SEC. 2. Be it enacted, That this act shall take effect from
the date of its passage.

Approved April 8, 1912.

CHAPTER 690.

AN ACT to appropriate a sum of money for the purpose of
securing the participation of the State of Maryland in the
Panama-Pacific Exposition at San Francisco, California, in
the year 1915.

(Vetoed.)

CHAPTER 691.

AN ACT to add an additional section to Article 8 of the Code
of Public Local Laws of Maryland, title "Cecil County,"
sub-title "County Commissioners," to follow section 112 of
said Article, and to be designated 112A.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That an additional section be added to Article 8 of the
Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland, title "Cecil County,"
sub-title "County Commissioners," to follow section 112, and
to be designated 112A.

SEC. 112A. Be it enacted, That the Board of County Com-
missioners of Cecil County is authorized and empowered to
borrow money for the use of the county whenever it becomes
necessary in order to defray the current expenses of the
county; the sum borrowed shall not exceed in any one year
twenty-five thousand dollars; provided, that whenever the Board
of County Commissioners intends to ask for a loan of money,
it shall give at least ten day's notice by publication in two
of the newspapers published in Cecil county, stating in said
notice the amount of the loan to be asked for, the reason the
money in required, and for what purposes it is to be used,
and if at the end of the fiscal year, the Board of County Com-
misioners finds that the expenditures for the year exceed the
amount of the taxes collected after deducting the amount of
money borrowed during the year, then it shall be the duty of
the Board of County Commissioners to include any deficit for
the year in the levy for the next fiscal year.