3974 ARTICLE 17.

assessable property within the District by the County Commissioners of
Montgomery and Prince George's Counties, a tax of three (3 c.) 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 purposes 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, 1927, 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.

1927, ch. 448, sec. 6.

725. In the preparation and making of the plan, and in the acquisi-
tion and development of land or other property or other acts incident
to the carrying out of the plan, the Commission may act in conjunction
and co-operation with the National Capital Park and Planning Com-
mission created by Act of Congress, approved April 30, 1926, and the
Commission is hereby designated by the State of Maryland as the repre-
sentative of the State of Maryland for this purpose. The Commission
is further empowered to act in conjunction and co-operation with other
representatives or officials of the United States Government or of the
District of Columbia or of the State of Maryland, including the Wash-
ington Suburban Sanitary Commission, or of the State of Virginia or of
Montgomery and Prince George's Counties or of any municipality or other
local subdivision within said counties or within said states. All public

officials of the State of Maryland and of said Counties shall upon request
furnish to the Commission within a reasonable time, such available infor-
mation and data as it may require for its work. The maps, surveys, engi-