2204 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 918

diately after Section 241 of said Article, authorizing the
Board of Education of Charles County to provide certain
transportation for children attending certain schools in
Charles County and authorizing the County Commissioners
of Charles County to appropriate certain funds, and to pay
the same to the Board of Education of Charles County to be
used by the Board for the purpose aforesaid.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That two new sections be and they are hereby added to
Article 9 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland (1930
Edition), title "Charles County", sub-title "Schools", said new
sections to be known as Sections 241A and 241B, to follow
immediately after Section 241 of said Article, and to read as
follows:

241A. All children who attend parochial schools in Charles
County, which schools do not receive State aid, and who re-
side on or along or near to the public highways of Charles
County, on which there is now or hereafter operated a public
school bus or conveyance provided by the Board of Education
of Charles County for transporting children to and from the
public schools of Charles County, shall be entitled to trans-
portation on the said buses or conveyances, subject to the con-
ditions hereinafter set forth, from a point on the said public
highways nearest or most accessible to their respective homes
to a point on said public highways nearest or most accessible
to their respective schools, without changing the routes of said
buses or conveyances now or hereafter established by said
Board of Education of Charles County for transporting chil-
dren to and from the public schools. Such transportation may
be provided by the Board of Education, as aforesaid, for all
the children attending schools described herein, upon the same
terms and conditions as now or as may be hereafter estab-
lished by the Board of Education of Charles County for
children attending public schools.

241B. The County Commissioners of Charles County are
hereby authorized to appropriate annually to the Board of
Education of Charles County, from any funds received by said
Charles County for any general County purpose and not de-
rived from any tax levied on real property, such sum as the
said Board of Education may request to enable it to defray
any costs incurred by it in carrying into effect the provisions
of Section 241A and to establish new bus routes, in the dis-
cretion of the Board of Education of Charles County, for the
transportation to and from school of children attending
schools not receiving State aid. The transportation of children
to and from schools not receiving State aid shall be upon such