2088 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 870

cessor or successors, shall pay all proper costs, expenses,
claims and demands including salaries to a librarian and
other employees, the purchase price of such real and personal
property as may be necessary to establish, maintain and oper-
ate said Public Library and the principal and interest on
encumbrances on any real estate so acquired by said Bethesda
Public Library Association, Inc., as the same shall become
due and payable, that are necessary to properly establish,
maintain and operate said Public Library. Should the tax so
collected in any one year be inadequate to defray the said
costs, expenses, claims and demands such deficiency shall be
added to the amount required for the next ensuing year and
levied and collected in the next year's taxes.

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

Approved April 25, 1947.

CHAPTER 870.
(House Bill 846)

AN ACT to authorize and empower the Board of County
Commissioners of Montgomery County to borrow upon the
faith and credit of said county a sum of money not to
exceed Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($500,000) for the
construction and establishment of sewerage and drainage
systems outside of the Washington Suburban Sanitary
District, to issue its bonds therefor and to levy taxes to
pay the principal and interest of said bonds, all to be
contingent upon the presentation of an appropriate
petition by the taxpayers on real property in any sewerage
or drainage district or area in Montgomery County affected
by the issuance of said bonds.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted ty the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the Board of County Commissioners of Montgomery
County be and it is hereby authorized and empowered to bor-
row on the faith and credit of said county the amount of
Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($500,000) and from time
to time to issue and sell bonds not exceeding said sum of
($500,000), said bonds to be signed by the President of the
said Board of County Commissioners and countersigned
by the County Treasurer of said county and to sealed with
the seal of said county. The entire proceeds of such bonds,