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SEC. 11. And be it further enacted, That this Act is hereby
declared to be an emergency law and necessary for the imme-
diate preservation of the public health and safety, and having
been passed upon a yea and nay vote, supported by three-fifths
of all the members elected to each of the two Houses of the Gen-
eral Assembly, the same shall take effect from the date of its
passage.

Approved April 1, 1927.

CHAPTER 301.

AN ACT to provide for the purchase of a site for a public
school building in or near the corporate limits of the Town
of La Plata, in Charles County, Maryland, and for the
erecting, equipping and furnishing of such public school
building thereon, including heating apparatus therefor; and
authorizing, empowering and directing the County Com-
missioners of Charles County, upon the written demand of
the building committee provided for in this Act, to issue
coupon bonds to the extent of thirty thousand dollars ($30, -
000) on the faith and credit of said county, to be applied to
the cost of purchasing said site and the erecting, equipping
and furnishing of said school building, and to levy a tax on
the assessable property of the said county to pay interest
thereon and to pay for said bonds as they become due and
payable.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That W. Mitchell Digges, Warren ML Albrittain and Leo
K. Farrell, all of Charles County, Maryland, be and they are
hereby appointed a committee to be styled "The Building
Committee of the La Plata Public School, " to serve without
pay, for the purpose of purchasing an adequate site for a
public school building in or near the corporate limits of the
Town of La Plata in Charles County, Maryland, and for the
further purpose of erecting a public school building on said
site, to be constructed of such material as may be selected by
the Building Committee, and to equip and furnish said build-
ing and provide suitable and sufficient heating apparatus
therefor; that two of said committee shall constitute a quorum;
and the concurrence of two of them shall be necessary for the
decision on all questions which may arise in the discharge of
their duties; that all vacancies in said Building Committee,