508 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

sioners be liable therefor unless the same shall be verified by
affidavit made before a Justice of the^ Peace or Notary Public
of said County, or before the Clerk of the Circuit Court for
said County, and all bills incurred by the said County Com-
missioners, or by or on behalf of any of the institutions of said
County, shall be paid by the draft of the Clerk to the County
Commissioners, countersigned by the President of the County
Commissioners, and drawn on the Treasurer of said County.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect from the date of its passage.
This Bill became a law on April 2, 1910, by reason of the

expiration of the six days under the provision of Section 17 of
Article 2 of the Constitution.

CHAPTER 24.

AN ACT to authorize the Mayor and Councilmen of Frostburg
to issue bonds for the purpose of paving, grading and other-
wise improving the streets, alleys and lanes of the town of
Frostburg.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the Mayor and Councilmen of Frostburg be and
they are hereby authorized to issue coupon bonds in the name
of the said corporation to an amount not to exceed fifty thou-
sand dollars ($50,000), which said bonds shall be signed by the
Mayor and Clerk of the town of Frostburg and attested by the
corporation seal of the said town, and shall be denominated
"Frostburg Street Improvement Bonds of 1910," and shall bear
interest at a rate not to exceed four per centum per annum,
payable semi-annually, to be issued in denominations not ex-
ceeding five hundred dollars ($500), to be payable at a time
not exceeding thirty years from date, and redeemable at the
pleasure of the said corporation at any time after five years
from their date; and the said town shall have the power from
year to year to levy and collect a special tax to pay said inter-
est and to provide a sinking fund for the redemption of said
bonds; and the said Mayor and Councilmen shall have power
to issue the same in such instalments or amounts as they may
deem proper from time to time, the aggregate of the bonds to
be issued not to exceed the said sum of fifty thousand dollars
($50,000).

SEC. 2. The Mayor and Councilmen, out of the proceeds
of said bonds, shall pay one-third of the cost of paving, grad-
ing and otherwise improving any street or portion thereof