570 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

and directed to levy and collect such a tax on the assessable
property of said county as the Board of County School Com-
missioners of said county shall designate as proper to defray
the usual and necessary running expenses of the public school
system of the said county; provided, that said tax shall not
exceed twenty-eight cents on the one hundred dollars; taxes so
levied and collected shall be levied and collcted as other taxes,
and shall be paid over to the Treasurer of the Board of County
School Commissioners of Baltimore County, upon the order of
the Board of County School Commissioners of Baltimore
County, at such times and in such amounts as shall be neces-
sary; provided, the collections from said school levy shall be
sufficient for said purpose, and when not sufficient funds are
on hand from the said school levy, the said County Commis-
sioners of Baltimore County, at their discretion, are hereby
authorized to advance a sufficient sum to supply such deficiency
from any other funds not immediately demandable for other
purposes of said county.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the Board of County Com-
missioners of Baltimore County be and they are hereby author-
ized and empowered, in their discretion, to levy and collect a
tax upon the assessable property of Baltimore County at a rate
not to exceed nine cents on the one hundred dollars, the same
to be in addition to the tax provided for in the preceding sec-
tion hereof, and to be used for the purpose of the erection of
new school buildings, furnishings, repairs, additions, heating
plants and sanitary improvements to school buildings now
erected or to be hereafter erected in said county, to be levied
and collected as other taxes are and paid over to the Treasurer
of the said Board of County School Commissioners of Balti-
more County, at the time and under the same regulations as
provided for the payment of the taxes referred to in the pre-
ceding section, as therein set forth; provided, however, that
there shall be no other levy for Baltimore County for school
purposes, and that all Acts or parts of Acts inconsistent here-
with are hereby repealed in so far as they apply to Baltimore
County.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.

Approved March 11, 1910.

CHAPTER 143.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Section 284
of Chapter 495 of the Acts of the General Assembly of Mary-
land, 1908, entitled "An Act to repeal Article S of the Public
Local Laws of Maryland," title "Baltimore County."