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required in each and every year while the bonds hereby author-
ized or any of them are outstanding and unpaid, beginning with
the year preceding the year in which the first of said bonds shall
fall due, to levy and collect a special tax on the property of an
kinds and description, liable to assessment and taxation in
Carroll County, which tax shall be sufficient to pay the interest
on the bonds outstanding by them issued under the provisions
of this Act, and the principal thereof as the same shall severally
fall due, until they shall have all been redeemed and retired
at the time of maturity; and the proceeds of such special tax
collected shall by the said The County Commissioners of Carroll
County be placed in some safe depository as a separate and
distinct fund and by them applied only to the payment of the
interest and redemption of said bonds, when, and as soon as
they become due and redeemable; and when redeemed said bonds
and any interest coupons shall be cancelled; and said taxes are
pledged to the payment of the interest and principal of said
bonds and can be used for no other purpose, except, when all of
said bonds and the coupons thereon shall have been paid, the
balance if any in such fund shall be used for such public school
purposes in Carroll County, as shall be agreed upon and deter-
mined by said Board of Education and the said The County
Commissioners of Carroll County.

SEC. 14 And be it further enacted. That the provisions of
this Act shall be construed as additional and supplemental to
and not in substitution for or in conflict with any of the pro-
visions of the General Laws of the State of Maryland relating
to public schools and the powers of the State Superintendent
of Education under the provisions of said General Laws.

SEC. 15. And be it further enacted, That before the issuing
of said bonds or any of them, the question of the issuing of said
bonds as hereinbefore set forth shall be submitted to a vote of
the qualified voters of Carroll County, at a special election to
be held in said county, on Monday, the twenty-sixth day of
September, 1927, and the Supervisors of Election of Carroll
County shall furnish the ballots necessary for said election and
shall have printed on said ballot the title of this Act, and upon
said ballot shall be printed these words, with a suitable square
to the right of each:

FOR THE SCHOOL BOND ISSUE
AGAINST THE SCHOOL BOND ISSUE

And if, at said election the number of ballots cast upon said
question and reading "For the School Bond Issue" shall exceed
the number of ballots cast upon said question and reading
"Against the School Bond Issue, " the said The County Commis-
sioners of Carroll County shall be and are hereby authorized and