ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 425

and providing for the manner in which the Supervisors of
Election of said county shall hold and conduct said special
election; and declaring this Act to be an emergency law and
necessary for the immediate preservation of the public health
and safety.

WHEREAS, In order to meet the conditions arising out of the
increased attendance in and rapidly growing needs of the pub-
lic schools of Carroll County, there is imperative and imme-
diate necessity for the erection and equipment of a number of
new public school buildings, to enable the Board of Education
of said county to properly provide for the education of all the
children of the county; and, whereas, the increased traffic and
passing of heavy trucks over the county roads in said county
have rendered many of such roads most defective and at times

practicable impassable, a condition which can be remedied only
by the replacing of "dirt roads" by more perfectly constructed
stone-surfaced roads; and

WHEREAS, To raise the money for the erection and equip-
ment of said new public school buildings and for the replace-
ment of "dirt roads" with hard-surfaced stone roads, it will be
necessary for the County Commissioners of said county to levy
so large a tax upon the assessable property in the county within
the next few years as would be an intolerable burden upon the
tax-payers of the county, or to borrow money, upon the faith
and credit of the county, and to issue bonds to secure the pay-
ment thereof through a long series of years; and

WHEREAS, It is believed that for such permanent improve-
ments it will be more equitable and just for the tax-payers of
the future, who will enjoy the benefit thereof, to participate in
the payment therefor, than to require the present assessable
property of the county to bear the whole burden of the cost of
such permanent improvement, now, therefore:

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the Board of County Commissioners of Carroll
County in order to provide the funds necessary for the erection
and equipment of the new public school buildings, hereinafter
specifically mentioned; and for the construction and permanent
improvement, of county roads in the several districts of said
county, as hereinafter specifically mentioned, is hereby author-
ized and empowered to borrow money on the faith and credit of
said county and to issue and sell coupon bonds therefor to an
amount not to exceed Seven Hundred Thousand Dollars