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for the schools of not less than sixty-seven (67) cents on
each one hundred dollars ($100) of assessable property, ex-
clusive of the amount levied for debt service and capital out-
lay for the schools; provided, further, that in any county, all
funds which the county board of education may be authorized
to expend for the schools, other than State appropriations, and
exculsive of the amount authorized to be expended for debt
service and capital outlay, may, for the purposes of the above
proviso, be considered as levied by the board of county com-
missioners, irrespective of the source or sources from which
such funds may be derived; and provided, further, that the
county board of education in each of the several counties shar-
ing in the Equalization Fund shall expend no less than twenty-
four per centum (24%) of the total budget, not including debt
service and capital outlay, for purposes other than teachers'
salareis. But no special appropriation to any county, except
as heretofore in this section provided, or to any acadamy, or to
any college or university may be paid from the General State
School Fund.

Approved April 13th, 1922.

CHAPTER 383.

AN ACT to authorize, empower and direct the County Commis-
sioners of Washington County to issue bonds on the credit of
said county to the extent of three hundred thousand ($300,-
000) dollars for the purchase of site or sites, for the erection,
improvement and equipment of such school building or build-
ings or repairs as the Board of Education for Washington
County may deem necessary within the City of Hagerstown

or anywhere in Washington County, and to pay for the same
or any part thereof and to provide for levying taxes to pay
the interest on said bonds and the principal of such bonds as
they mature.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the County Commissioners of Washington County be
and they are hereby authorized, empowered and directed to issue
serial coupon bonds on the credit of said county to the amount
of three hundred thousand ($300,000.00) dollars, said bonds
to be issued in sums of one hundred ($100.00) dollars
or any multiple thereof, to be signed by the President of the