ART. 24.] WORCESTER COUNTY. 1177

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.

Approved April 1, 1908.

CHAPTER 378.

AN ACT to authorize the County Commissioners of Worcester
county to issue bonds to an amount not exceeding fifty thou-
sand dollars for the purpose of building and improving the
public roads and highways within said county, and to levy
and collect taxes for the payment of the said roads.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That for the purpose of building and improving public
roads and highways within the said county, the County Com-
missioners of Worcester county, or a majority of the said
commissioners, be and they are hereby authorized and empow-
ered to issue coupon bonds to an amount not exceeding fifty
thousand dollars, as hereinafter provided; said bonds to be
signed by the president of the Board of County Commissioners
and countersigned by the clerk of said Board of County Com-
missioners for Worcester county, with the corporate seal of
the Board of County Commissioners attached.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That said bonds shall be issued
on the faith and credit of Worcester county in denominations
of five hundred dollars each, in such number as the Board of
County Commissioners may determine; provided, they do not
in the aggregate exceed fifty thousand dollars; and that the
said bonds shall bear interest at a rate not exceeding five per
centum per annum; said interest to accrue from the date
thereof, and to be payable semi-annualy on the first day of
January and the first day of July of each and every year until
maturity.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the said bonds shall be num-
bered in consecutive order as issued, and that the whole or any
part of the said bonds may be issued on the first day of any
July, or the first day of any January within five years after
the passage of this Act, which the Board of County Commis-
sioners may by resolution select; and the said bonds shall
mature as follows: Two thousand dollars thereof in the year
1933, and annually thereafter the sum of two thousand dollars
until all of said bonds so issued shall be matured and shall
have been paid; and should any of the said bonds so issued be
redeemed before or at maturity, it shall be the duty of the
County Commissioners to immediately cancel the same, and