352 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 175

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
opportunities as equal as may be to receive public school in-
struction in healthful and comfortable buildings; and

WHEREAS, It is to the public interest and for the direct
benefit of the whole citizenship of said County that an adequate
fund, under proper control as to expenditure, should be pro-
vided by authority of the present session of the General Assem-
bly of Maryland for the construction or enlarging of public
school buildings in Anne Arundel County and that wasteful
and unjust methods of erecting or improving said buildings
should be eliminated; and

WHEREAS, Whenever consolidation of public schools in any
particular section of the said county may be practicable and
necessary, unreasonable delay in effecting such consolidation
would result by direct taxation imposing too heavy a burden on
the taxpayers.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the Board of Education of Anne Arundel County,
in order to provide necessary funds for the erection of new
public school buildings and for additions to public school
buildings, and for furnishing and equipping the same in said
county, is hereby authorized and directed to borrow money on
the credit of said county, and to issue and sell coupon bonds
therefor in the aggregate sum of two hundred and twenty-five
thousand ($225, 000) dollars; said bonds to be endorsed by the
County Commissioners of Anne Arundel County which en-
dorsement the said Board of County Commissioners of Anne
Arundel County, is hereby authorized and required to give.
Each of said bonds shall be in the sum of one thousand
($1, 000) dollars and they shall be numbered from one (1) to
two hundred and twenty-five (225) both inclusive and bear the
date the first day of July, in the year nineteen hundred and
twenty-four (1924). Said bonds shall be signed by the Presi-
dent of the Board of Education of Anne Arundel County, and
countersigned by the County Superintendent of Schools, as
the executive officer of said board with the corporate seal of
said board attached, and the endorsement thereof by the
County Commissioners of Anne Arundel County shall be
signed by the President of said County Commissioners, and
countersigned by the clerk thereof, with the corporate seal of