HERBERT R. O'CONOR, GOVERNOR. 1179

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the Board of County Commissioners of Montgomery
County is hereby authorized and empowered to borrow the
money to pay the cost of the re-assessment commencing in
1939 of all the taxable property in Montgomery County made
pursuant to Article 81 of the Public General Laws of Mary-
land, including the compensation and expenses of the assessors,
assistants, experts, clerks and other employees, rent of suit-
able space for their use, supplies and equipment used in mak-
ing the assessment and other expenses incident thereto, and
the cost of any publication relating to said assessments author-
ized by any Act of the General Assembly or by resolution of
the Board of County Commissioners of Montgomery County,
by issuing from time to time certificates of indebtedness and
renewals thereof or any part thereof, from time to time, in
the name and upon the credit of said county, upon such terms
and conditions, in such denominations, and to mature at such
time from the date of issuance as said Board, in its discre-
tion, by resolution, may determine; said certificates to bear
interest at a rate not to exceed six per centum per annum and
to be signed by the President of the Board of County Com-
missioners and attested by the Clerk thereof; provided, how-
ever, that the Board of County Commissioners of Montgomery
County is hereby authorized, empowered and directed to levy
annually, for a period of five years commencing with July 1,
1940, upon the taxable property of Montgomery County a sum
equal to one-fifth of the total amount of said certificates of
indebtedness, together with the interest accruing each year
on the total outstanding amount of said certificates, and one-
fifth of the total amount of said certificates of indebtedness
shall be paid and cancelled by the Board of County Commis-
sioners on or before July 1, 1941, and a like quantity paid and
cancelled on or before July 1st of each year thereafter until
the entire amount shall be paid and cancelled.

Insofar as the provisions of this section shall be inconsistent
with Section 174 of Article 81 of the Public General Laws of
the State of Maryland, the said Section 174 is hereby suspended
as to Montgomery County until July 1, 1940.

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 the members of the two Houses of the General Assembly,
the same shall take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved May 17, 1939.