ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 1219

thereof as the same shall become due and payable; and to
provide for the levying of taxes on the assessable property of
said county for the purpose of paying said interest and for
the liquidation of said bonds; and providing that before the
issuing of said bonds the question of the issuance thereof
shall be submitted to a vote of the duly qualified voters of
said county at a special election to be held in said county on
Monday, the twenty-sixth day of September, 1927; and pro-
viding that the said election shall be held and conducted by
the Supervisors of Election of said county, and the manner
in which the said Supervisors of Election shall hold and
conduct said special election.

WHEREAS, on the 17th day of May, 1926, the Board of Edu-
cation of Carroll County, and the County Commissioners of Car-
roll County, adopted a preamble and resolution in the following,
term: —

WHEREAS, it is believed by both boards, by the party leaders
of both political parties, and by the rank and file of the citizens
of the county, that the upward limit of taxation has been reach-
ed; and

WHEREAS, new school buildings are imperatively needed at
Sykesville, Union Bridge, Manchester, Westminster, New Wind-
sor and Uniontown, and additions at Charles Carroll and Mt.
Airy; and

WHEREAS, the citizens of the communities named, in large
numbers, have through the proper agencies earnestly petitioned
both boards for new public school buildings in the several com-
munities named; and

WHEREAS, the two boards fully recognize these imperative
needs and fully appreciate the inadequacy of school facilities
at the places named; but also realize the fact that there are only
two ways by which the funds can be raised to meet these urgent
necessities—by the direct levy of taxes, or by the issuing of
bonds—and the further fact that the levying of taxes beyond
the present point would impose a burden upon the tax payers
too grievous to be borne; therefore

"Be it resolved that until the citizens of Carroll County shall
demand and approve a bond issue for schools to meet the va-
rious needs of the county, the Board of Education will not ask
in the annual budget for an appropriation for any of the new
buildings herein before mentioned, and the County Commission-
ers will adhere strictly to this program;