100 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 36

payment of other Town taxes are enforced, as prescribed by
said Chapter 217 of the Acts of 1947.

312B. All the presently outstanding funded or floating
indebtedness of the Town which said Town intends to redeem
or retire and refund or refinance by the issuance of said bonds
pursuant to the authority hereof, whether said funded or
floating indebtedness be represented by bonds, notes or other
evidence of debt, is hereby declared to be valid and binding on
the Town in accordance with the respective terms thereof,
and no purchaser of the bonds hereby authorized shall be
required to inquire into the validity or propriety of any such
outstanding indebtedness, into the authority or purpose for
incurring the same or into the manner in which the same was
incurred.

312C. The authority hereby conferred on the Town is here-
by intended to be a continuing one and shall not be construed
as having been exhausted by the partial or total exercise there-
of at any one time, provided, however, that at no time shall
there be outstanding hereunder bonds of the Town exceeding
in par amount the maximum of $100, 000. prescribed hereby.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act is hereby
declared to be an emergency measure and necessary for the
immediate preservation of the public health and safety and
having been passed by a yea and nay vote, supported by three-
fifths of all the members elected to each of the two Houses of
the General Assembly of Maryland, the same shall take effect
from the date of its passage.

Approved November 10, 1947.

CHAPTER 36.
(Senate Bill 41)

AN ACT to make an emergency appropriation to the Board
of Public Works to be used by said Board to supplement
appropriations in the Budget for the fiscal year ending
June 30th, 1948, and June 30th, 1949, to be expended by
the Board of Public Works in paying one-fourth of the cost
of improvements made by the County Commissioners of any
county to the jail of said county.

WHEREAS, the General Assembly, by Chapter 761 of the Acts
of 1945, provided that in the event that the County Commis-
sioners of any county shall provide for making improvements
to the jail of said county, the State, through the Board of