PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, GOVERNOR. 567

tion District No. 15, in Frederick County; and to issue bonds
therefor and to levy on the assessable property in Frederick
County an annual tax sufficient to pay said bonds when they
mature and to pay the interest thereof as it becomes due.

WHEREAS, The conditions now existing at the public school in
Thurmont by reason of the over-crowded condition of said school,
the lack of proper ventilation, the inadequacy of means to pro-
tect the lives of the pupils in case of fire and improper sanitary
provisions have become alarming to such an extent as to produce
protests by the citizens of said town and vicinity, coupled with
the further fact that the said school building has been partially
destroyed by a recent windstorm, and it being the earnest desire
on their and on the part of the Board of County School Com-
missioners of said County to remedy the evils which exist; and,

WHEREAS, The conditions cannot be properly remedied except
by the purchase or condemnation of a suitable addition to the
present school site and erection of a new building for the use of
said school; now, therefore,

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the County Commissioners of Frederick County, in
order to provide the necessary funds for the purchase or con-
demnation of additional ground in Thurmont and the erection
of a school building in said town of Thurmont and the expenses
incident thereto, are hereby directed to borrow money on the
credit of the County to an amount not exceeding the sum of
Thirty-six Thousand Dollars ($36,000.00) on May 1st, 1914,
and to issue bonds therefor under the corporate seal of said
County Commissioners, to be signed by the President of the
Board of County Commissioners and countersigned by the clerk
therof in sums not less than One Hundred Dollars ($100.00)
and not more than One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00), bearing
interest from date of issue thereof at the rate of 4 1/2 per cent,
per annum; and said bonds shall have written or printed on
them a distinct reference to the Act directing the issue of the
same and said bonds when issued shall be exempt from muni-
cipal and County taxation in Frederick County.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the County Commissioners
shall cause to be levied and collected from the assessable prop-
erty in Frederick County a tax annually which shall be sufficient
to pay the interest on said bonds and provide a sinking fund
for their redemption at or before maturity; and said tax shall
be collected in like manner as other taxes levied in said County