3486 ARTICLE 16.

or amendment thereof shall be by resolution of the Commission carried
by the affirmative votes of not less than four members of the Commission,
of whom not less than two members shall be from Montgomery County
and not less than two members from Prince George's County. The reso-
lution shall refer expressly to the maps and descriptive and other matter
intended by the Commission to form the whole or part of the plan or,
amendment and the action taken shall be recorded on the map, plan or
descriptive matter by the identifying signature of the chairman and sec-
retary of the Commission. An attested copy of the plan or any part there-
of or any substantial amendment thereof or addition thereto shall be cer-
tified by the Commission and filed with the Clerk of the Circuit Court
of each of Montgomery and Prince George's Counties.

1927, ch. 448, sec. 5.

589. For the purpose of paying the current operating or administra-
tive expenses of the Commission, including the cost of the preparation and
making of the plan of the District or any part of such plan, there shall
be levied annually beginning with the next annual levy against all the
assessable property within the District by the County Commissioners of
Montgomery and Prince George's Counties, a tax of three (3c.) cents
on each one hundred dollars. The said County Commissioners are hereby
directed in their next annual levy and annually thereafter to levy said
tax on all property both real and personal assessed for County tax pur-
poses within the District, which taxes shall be levied and collected as
County taxes now are or may be hereafter by law levied and collected, and
have the same priority rights, bear the same interest and penalties and
in every respect be treated the same as County taxes. The proceeds of the
collection of such tax shall be paid to the Commission and shall constitute
the administrative fund of the Commission. The expenditures of the
Commission for operating or administrative purposes shall be within the
amount of such fund, together with such additional funds as may be ap-
propriated or contributed for such purpose's by said County Commissioners
or by the General Assembly of Maryland or by the United States or by
private donors. For the purpose of providing funds for organization of
the Commission and the prosecution of its preliminary work, the County
Commissioners of each county are hereby authorized to pay to the Com-
mission on or before May 1st, 192Y, the sum of Five Thousand Dollars,
and to deduct each year for three years from the amounts collected as
herein provided, one-third of the amounts so advanced; or for the pur-
pose of providing funds for its organization and preliminary work the
Commission, is hereby authorized and empowered, as soon after organiza-
tion as conveniently may be, to borrow a sum not exceeding $10,000 from
any bank or institution or individual willing to lend the same, and to
issue its notes or obligations for the same in amounts not exceeding the
aggregate of $10,000 bearing interest at not exceeding 6%, which sum
shall -be repayable out of the proceeds of the tax levied for the use of the
Commission one-third in each year succeeding.