1454 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 508

period of thirty days for each consecutive year of service to
each of the officers of police, policemen and detectives of the
regular force employed by the said Commissioner, nor shall
any enforced absence with leave on account of sickness or death
be deducted from the pay of any such officer of police, police-
man or detective, or from their thirty days leave, as herein
provided.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect June 1st, 1922.

Approved April 13th, 1922.

CHAPTER 508.

AN ACT to authorize the County Commissioners of Anne Arun-
del County to issue bonds of said county for the purpose of
redeeming and paying off the present indebtedness of the
county and the floating debt thereof and to place said county
upon a cash basis as to future obligations for the same.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the County Commissioners of Anne Arundel County
for the purpose of paying off the present indebtedness of Anne
Arundel County and the floating debt of said county and for
the payment of debts hereafter to be contracted upon the credit
of the county, and for the enlargement of the Land Record
Room and other improvements to the Court House, are here-
lay authorized and empowered to borrow on the faith
and credit of said county an amount not exceeding the
sum of four hundred thousand dollars, and to issue bonds
therefor in sums of not less than one hundred dollars but
may be issued in sums of one hundred dollars or any multiple
thereof, and the said bonds or any portion thereof shall have
interest coupons attached, or said bonds or any portion thereof
shall not have interest coupons attached, all as the said County
Commissioners or a majority of them shall determine. Said
bonds to be signed by the president of the said County Com-
missioners and countersigned by the clerk of said County
Commissioners, attested by the corporate seal of said county,
and to be separately noted and recorded in a book kept for that
purpose. Said bonds shall bear interest at the rate of four and
one-half per centum per annum, payable semi-annually, on the
first day of July and January in each year, and shall be for-