294 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 137

214-Aa. For the purpose of verifying and checking up the
accounts and reports of the sheriff, hereinbefore provided for,
it shall be the duty of the Clerk of the Circuit Court for Anne
Arundel County, at the end of every term of said Court, to sub-
mit to the County Commissioners a list of all criminal cases
of said term where the costs have been adjudged against the
County, together with a statement of said costs, and also a
statement of all fees, in criminal cases, charged or received by
the sheriff during said term.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect
from June first, 1924.

Approved April 9, 1924.

CHAPTER 137.

AN ACT to authorize and direct the Board of Education of
Anne Arundel County to borrow money upon the credit of
said County to pay for the erection of new public school
buildings and additions to public school buildings and the
equipping of such new buildings or additions in Anne Arun-
del County; to issue bonds therefor, endorsed by the County
Commissioners of Anne Arundel County, and authorizing
and directing said County Commissioners to levy a tax
sufficient in each and every year to pay said bonds at ma-
turity and to pay the semi-annual interest therein; and pro-
viding for the expenditure of the proceeds of said bond issue
for public school buildings and equipment.

WHEREAS, The need of new and modern public school build-
ings in certain localities in Anne Arundel County and of re-
modeling or enlarging existing structures, is imperative, that all
the children of said county—of school age—should have oppor-
tunities as equal as may be to receive public school instruction
in healthful and comfortable buildings, and

WHEREAS, It is to the public interest and for the direct bene-
fit of the whole citizenship of said County that an adequate
fund, under proper control as to expenditure, should be provid-
ed by authority of the present session of the General Assembly
of Maryland for the construction or enlarging of public school
buildings in Anne Arundel County and that wasteful and un-
just methods of erecting or improving said buildings should be
eliminated; and