ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR.                  625

CHAPTER 234,

AN ACT to authorize the Board of Education of Prince
George's County and the County Commissioners of Prince
George's County to issue serial bonds of said county to the
amount of not more than two hundred and seventy-five thou-
sand dollars ($275, 000. 00), for the purpose of acquiring
sites for certain new school houses and for building certain
new school houses in said county, and for building additions
to or making alterations to existing school houses therein,
and for equipping such new or improved school houses, said
bonds to be issued from time to time in the joint discretion
of said boards; and to authorize and direct the County Com-
missioners of Prince George's County to levy such tax on
the assessable basis of said county as may be necessary to
pay the interest on such of said bonds as may be outstand-
ing from time to time, and to redeem said bonds as they
become due and payable.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That whenever the Board of Education of Prince
George's County shall think it advisable to build and equip
any or all of the school houses or the additions to the school
houses or to purchase sites for school buildings at the herein-
after named locations, it may by resolution request the County
Commissioners of said county to issue bonds of said county to
pay for the same, and if the County Commissioners of said
county concur in the advisability of issuing such bonds for the
purposes indicated in such resolution, they may by their resolu-
tion order that the same shall be issued as hereinafter pro-
vided, but the total amount of bonds issued hereunder shall not
exceed the sum of two hundred and seventy-five thousand dol-
lars ($275, 000. 00) and the proceeds shall be spent in accord-
ance with the provisions hereof.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That when the Board
of Education of Prince George's' County shall have received
from the County Commissioners their resolution as provided
in Section 1, hereof, and not before, the said Board of Educa-
tion of Prince George's County shall be authorized to borrow,
on endorsement of the County Commissioners of Prince
George's County, who are hereby directed to endorse such bonds
on the faith and credit of said county, the following amounts
or any of them or all of them if the same are named in the