ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 47

and equipment of new public school buildings and the pur-
chase of land necessary therefor and the permanent im-
provement of old public school buildings in said county;
providing generally for the time, terms and manner of said
bond issue; and providing that before any of said bonds be
issued the question of the issuance thereof shall be approved
by a majority vote of the registered voters of Baltimore
County voting at the election to be held in said county on the
Tuesday after the first Monday in November, 1924.

WHEREAS, The rapid growth of Baltimore County has be-
come such as to make the school facilities in said county
grossly inadequate to accommodate all of the children daily
enlisting in said schools; and

WHEREAS, The Board of Education of Baltimore County
after a thorough survey of the needs at this time for the promo-
tion of public school education in said county, and after hear-
ing delegations of taxpayers and citizens from numerous sec-
tions of the county, demanding immediate relief for their chil-
dren now attending the public schools in said county, and
giving consideration to the requirements during the next few
years for additional school facilities in the entire county, and
finding therefrom in accordance with a schedule of schools and
the amount of money estimated to be required for the perma-
nent improvement of present schools and the purchase of
additional land and the erection and equipment of new public
school buildings, that the proceeds from the bond issue pro-
vided for in Chapter 243 of the Acts of the General Assembly
of Maryland at its session of 1922 as approved by a large
majority vote of the voters of said county at the annual elec-
tion in November, 1922, not heretofore expended, is not in
itself, enough to take care of the present urgent necessities for
such improvements in Baltimore County, but according to the
present judgment of said Board of Education will only be
sufficient to erect new school buildings at Westchester Avenue
to replace Grays, Thistle, Oella and Neepiers schools; at
Halethorpe, for colored children; Woodlawn; Edgemere and
North Point consolidation; Colgate; Catonsville and Towson;
and that an additional sum is required to immediately acquire
necessary land and erect new school buildings with equipment
or to permanently improve the present school buildings, at
Johnny cake, Hebbville, Randallstown, Garrison, Fowblesburg;
Owings Mills and Gills. Cockeysville. Timonium, Parkville,
Bare Hills, Riderwood, Perry Hall, Patapsco Neck, Dundalk,