406 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 273

of the County Commissioners, open to public inspection during
regular business hours throughout the fiscal year in which it
covers.

125D. With the written approval of the County Commis-
sioners, funds appropriated for a particular use of a county
agency may be expended for another use of the same agency,
but no county agency may expend, in the aggregate, in any
fiscal year, more than the total amount appropriated to such
agency under the budget, except as hereinafter provided. Upon
the application of any county agency to the County Commis-
sioners, said Commissioners may increase the appropriation
for such agency by transferring thereto a part or all of any
other amounts appropriated to any other county agency, by
appropriating thereto a sum or sums from the Contingent
Fund, or revenues received in excess of estimates, or by the
transfer of funds borrowed pursuant to the authority vested
in the County Commissioners of Baltimore County by law.
The consideration of any such application shall be had at ses-
sions of the County Commissioners open to the public, and the
action of the County Commissioners shall be evidenced by a
written order signed by a majority of said Commissioners.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect June 1, 1947.

Approved March 29, 1947.

CHAPTER 273.
(House Bill 471)

AN ACT to authorize and empower the Board of County
Commissioners of Montgomery County to issue serial re-
funding bonds of the county in an amount not exceeding
One Million Nine Hundred Seventy Thousand Five Hundred
Dollars ($1,970,500.00) for the purpose of refunding out-
standing bonds and certificates of indebtedness of the county
maturing between June 1, 1947, and June 30, 1949; to
authorize the County Commissioners of Montgomery County
to fix the form of bonds and terms of sale, subject only to
the provisions of this Act; to provide for temporary financ-
ing of the maturing debt until bonds can conveniently be
sold; to designate the purposes for which the proceeds of
the sale of said bonds may be expended; to validate and
legalize the bonds and certificates of indebtedness herein