ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 961

to pay annually to the Silver Spring Volunteer Fire Depart-
ment, Inc., the sum of twenty-five hundred dollars for main-
taining and operating the said fire department, said tax to be
determined, levied, collected and paid over in the following
manner: At least thirty days before the tax levying period of
each year the County Commissioners of said County determine
the number of cents per One Hundred Dollars of said assessable
value necessary to raise the required amount of twenty-five
hundred dollars. The said County Commissioners in their next
annual levy may levy said tax on all land and improvements
and any other property assessed for County tax purpose within
said Precinct, which tax may be levied and shall be collected as
County taxes are now or may be hereafter levied and collected,
and have the same priority, rights, bear the same interest and
penalties and in every respect be treated the same as County
taxes. The taxes so levied for the ensuing year shall be collected
by the tax collecting authorities of said county and every sixty
days they shall remit the whole amount of the taxes so collected
to the Treasurer of the said Silver Spring Volunteer Fire De-
partment, Inc., or its successor or successors, upon the said
Treasurer giving a corporate bond to said County Commis-
sioners to be approved by the Judge of the Circuit Court for
said County in terms and a penal sum to be fixed by the Board
of County Commissioners. It being the purpose of this Act
that the Board of County Commissioners of Montgomery
County are herewith authorized and empowered to levy as much
as $2, 500 a year against the property of the Silver Spring
precinct for the maintenance of the Silver Spring Volunteer
Fire Department, Inc., as long as the majority of the Board
of County Commissioners consider that such Volunteer Fire
Department, is rendering efficient and sufficient fire protection
to the general Silver Spring Community.

SEC. 2. 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 being
passed upon a yea and nay vote, supported by three-fifths of all
of the members elected to each of the two Houses of the General
Assembly of Maryland, the same shall take effect from date of
its passage.

Approved April 5, 1927.
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