ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR.                  809

thereunder, a conviction for one offense shall not be a bar to
the conviction for a continuation of such offense subsequent
to the first or any succeeding conviction.

445.     Any land owned by a church, and constituting the
premises occupied by such or its parsonage, and used exclusive^
ly for public worship or for other religious or customary pur-
poses of a church or parsonage and not for investment, gain or
other secular purposes, shall be exempt from the benefit assess-
ments provided for by this Act in respect of a frontage of not
exceeding 150 feet. The Commission may, in its discretion,
exercise in each individual case, grant or withhold a further
exemption of land so owned and used in respect of any front-
age thereof in excess of 150 feet hereinbefore provided for.

446.     For the purpose of providing for its expenses (in-
cluding depreciation of its property), the Commission each
year shall prepare an itemized and detailed budget showing
the unexpended balance on hand at the beginning of each year
of all funds available for payment of its said expenses, the
amount of its estimated expenses of each class during the
coming year, and finally the amount necessary to be raised by
local taxation as provided in this section for the purpose of
meeting said estimated expenses, together with a detailed state-
ment of the assessable basis within each sanitary district. The
Board of County Commissioners of Anne Arundel County are
hereby authorized, empowered, directed and required to levy
and collect all road taxes within each sanitary district, and
shall pay over from said road tax so collected to the Sanitary
Commission the amount necessary to meet the expenses of said
Commission as shown in said budget, not exceeding two-thirds
of all said road tax, and shall pay over said amount monthly
in as nearly equal installments as possible. The same road tax
rate fixed by the County Commissioners for the election dis-
tricts in which any sanitary district is located shall be the
road tax for that sanitary district. The County Commis-
sioners of Anne Arundel County and the treasurer of said
county shall collect said road tax as other county taxes are
collected and the Board of County Commissioners shall there-
upon pay over to the Commission so much of said tax as may
be needed to defray the expenses of the Commission according
to the budget requirements. The Board of County Commis-
sioners are hereby authorized and empowered to advance to
the Commission on open account, amounts not exceeding