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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

the issue and sale of said bonds under the provisions of this act,

shall be exclusively appropriated and applied to the payment of

the bonded indebtedness of said county accruing under and by

Money to
be applied

virtue of the act of assembly of eighteen hundred and eighty-six,
chapter three hundred and ninety-one, entitled "an act to authorize

the county commissioners of Charles county to raise money for

the current expenses of the county by negotiating a loan there-

for, which will become due and demandable in July, eighteen

hundred and ninety- one."

SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That the county commis-

sioners shall, in each and every year, levy upon the assessable

property in Charles county a sum of money as may be necessary

To provide

to pay the interest on the outstanding bonds by them issued in

payment.

pursuance of this act, as the same shall fall due, and also such

further and additional sums as may be required to gradually retire

and redeem such bonds until they shall have been redeemed; and

said taxes authorized by this act shall be collected as other taxes

are collected in said county.

Approved April 8, 1890.

CHAPTER 571.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments sections twenty-

three and twenty-six, of article ninety-five, of the Code of Pub-

lic General Laws, title "Treasurer," and to add additional sec-

tions to said article to be designated as "Sections twenty-eight

and twenty-nine," respectively, so as to provide for a more

perfect protection of the bonds, certificates of stocks and other

securities belonging to the sinking fund and to the treasury of

the State.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,

Repeal

That sections twenty-three and twenty-six, of article ninety-five,

of the Code of Public General _i Laws, title "Treasurer," be and

the same hereby are repealed and re-enacted with amendments

so as to read as follows :

23. The comptroller and treasurer shall within the first two

To court

weeks of January, April, July and October in every year, in the

and cance

presence of the governor, count and cancel the bonds and cer-

bonds.

tificates for stocks of the State and count and examine the other

securities purchased or obtained by the treasurer for the use of

the sinking fund; and a statement of the bonds and certificates

so counted and those so counted and cancelled signed by the

comptroller and treasurer, and countersigned by the governor,