DORCHESTER COUNTY. 2233

1920, ch. 62. sec. 105GG.

154. The County Commissioners of Dorchester County, whenever in
their discretion they may deem it advisable, are authorized to issue certifi-
cates of indebtedness for the payment of: (1) The maintenance and sup-
port of the public schools in said county; and (2) for repairs and main-
tenance to the county shell roads and bridges, and for no other purpose
whatsoever, bearing interest at the rate of not exceeding six per centum
(6%) per annum from the date of same, which shall be endorsed upon
the face of such certificates, and they shall levy on the assessable property
of the county liable to taxation for the payment of said interest-bearing
certificates in like manner as by law other claims have been heretofore
levied for and all such certificates of indebtedness issued and executed
by the County Commissioners shall be a lien upon all the assessable prop-
erty in Dorchester County, Maryland, provided, however, that all interest-
bearing certificates issued during any fiscal year shall be paid in full
within two months from the expiration of such fiscal year, and not more
than sixty thousand dollars ($60,000.00) shall be issued in any one fiscal
year.

See Sec. 200.

1922, ch 151.

155. The County Commissioners for Dorchester County are hereby
authorized and empowered to execute notes to an amount not to exceed
one hundred and fifty thousand dollars ($150,000.00) for the purpose of
refunding notes now outstanding against the County Commissioners for
Dorchester County and for no other purpose whatever. The said notes
shall be a charge and lien upon the assessable property in Dorchester
County, and shall be paid in full from the proceeds of the sale or sales
of the bonds authorized by an Act of the General Assembly of Maryland
at its session of 1922, for two hundred thousand dollars to provide for
and pay the present floating indebtedness of Dorchester County.

1916, ch. 27, sec. 105H.

156. The said Board of County Commissioners may use the said emer-
gency fund for the purpose of meeting any demand on account of any
estimate for which there may be no money at the time it is needed for
the purpose of the estimate, and when the revenue for the estimate shall
have been received it shall be credited to the emergency fund.

1916, ch. 27, sec. 105-I.

157. The Board of County Commissioners shall during the entire
month of March of each year give notice to the people of Dorchester
County, by advertisement thereof in at least two newspapers of general
circulation and published in said county, of the times and place of the
sitting of the said Board of Estimates during the following April, and
that at such sittings the said Board of Estimates will receive and consider
applications for improvements and such other matters as may be brought
before them in connection with which money may be appropriated.