1978 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 812

law, and bonds, interim certificates or other obligations may
be issued hereunder for any project notwithstanding that any
other law, may provide for the issuance of bonds, interim
certificates or other obligations for like purposes and with-
out regard to the requirement, restrictions or other provis-
ions contained in any other law. Bonds may be issued under
this sub-title notwithstanding any debt, or other limitation
prescribed by any other law, and the mode and method of
procedure for issuance of bonds under this sub-title need
not conform to the provisions of any other law. Any pro-
ceedings heretofore taken under any other law by any
municipality relating to the subject matter of this sub-title,
may be continued under such other law or under this sub-
title, or at the option of the governing body may be dis-
continued and new proceedings instituted under this sub-
title. Except in pursuance of any contract or agreement
theretofore entered into by and between any municipality
and any Federal agency, no municipality shall borrow any
money or issue any bonds pursuant to the provisions of this
sub-title after June 1, 1949. It is the purpose of this sub-
title to enable municipalities to secure the benefits of any
agency of the Federal Government engaged in a works pro
gram, to encourage public works, to reduce unemployment
and thereby to assist in the national recovery and promote
the publiq welfare, and it is also the purpose of this sub-
title to enable municipalties to accept and secure the assist-
ance and benefits of any agency of the Federal Government
given to encourage or to aid in the construction or acquisition
of public works, made necessary by and connected with post-
war reconstruction and to enable municipalities to accept and
secure the benefits of any agency of the Federal Government
given for or to aid in a program of public health, medical
research or medical care, and to these ends municipalities shall
have power to do all things necessary or convenient to carry
out said purpose in addition to the express powers conferred
in this sub-title. This sub-title is remedial in nature and the
powers hereby granted shall be liberally construed.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect June 1, 1947.

Approved April 25, 1947.

CHAPTER 812.
(House Bill 667)

AN ACT to repeal Sections 76 to 89, inclusive, of the Code of
Montgomery County (1939 Edition, being Article 16 of the