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22. If upon the completion of the investigation of any
application as aforesaid, the said Supervisors of City Charities
of Baltimore City or said County Commissioners conclude that
unless relief is granted, the mother applying will be unable to
support and educate her children and that they may become
a public charge, said County Commissioners shall pay or said
Supervisors of City Charities shall order the City Comptroller
of Baltimore City to pay out of the funds of Baltimore City,
as the case may be, to the mother monthly on the first day of
each month, such sum as they may deem sufficient to enable
said mother to support and educate her children. The Board
of Estimates and the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore
and the County Commissioners of the respective counties of
this State are authorized and directed to levy such taxes, not
exceeding one cent on each one hundred dollars of assessable
property, as may be necessary and sufficient to carry out the
provisions of this sub-title, or to provide for the same out of
the proceeds of the general taxes levied.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall
take effect June 1st, 1931.

Approved April 6, 1931.

CHAPTER 116.

AN ACT to authorize and empower The Mayor and Aldermen
of Frederick to issue and sell serial coupon bonds of said
municipal corporation in an amount not exceeding two hun-
dred and twenty-five thousand dollars ($225, 000. 00), par
value and to extend the proceeds therefrom for the purpose
of introducing into the Water System of said municipal
corporation an additional supply of water from Linganore
Creek, in Frederick County, Maryland, and for the purpose
of constructing a filtration plant and pumping station on
Linganore Creek, at the intake to be erected thereon, and
for the purpose of acquiring all necessary lands, rights of
way and easements necessary for the introduction of said
additional supply of water, and for the purpose of providing
payment for the construction of five additional feet to the
height of Fishing Creek Dam, and for the purpose of pro-
viding payment for such other permanent improvements to