HERBERT R. O'CONOR, GOVERNOR. 1309

period of each year the said Silver Spring Volunteer Fire
Department, Inc., shall determine the amount necessary to be
raised for the ensuing year to maintain, equip and operate
said fire department, and shall thereupon certify the same to
the County Commissioners of Montgomery County, who, in
their next annual levy, shall levy said tax on all property
assessed for County Tax purposes within said area at a rate
not exceeding six cents on each one hundred dollars of the
assessed value of said property to produce an amount that
may appear to them as sufficient for the said purposes, pro-
vided that the said County Commissioners shall not levy said
tax at a rate which would produce less than the amount so
certified by the Silver Spring Volunteer Fire Department,
Inc., as necessary to maintain, equip and operate said fire
department, without a previous public hearing to determine
the necessity of any proposed reduction of the amount so
certified by the said fire department. The said tax shall 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 re-
spect be treated the same as County taxes. The taxes so
levied for the ensuing year shall be collected by the tax col-
lecting authorities of said County and they shall remit the
whole amount of the taxes so collected to the Treasurer of the
said Silver Spring Volunteer Fire Department, Inc., upon the
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 and from the amounts so re-
ceived the said Treasurer, upon authorization by said Silver
Spring Volunteer Fire Department, Inc., shall pay all proper
costs, expenses, claims, and demands necessary for the main
tenance, equipment and operation of said Fire Department,
and shall upon demand of the County Commissioners of said
County make a report to said Commissioners of such ex-
penditures.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect on June 1, 1940.

Approved May 11, 1939.

CHAPTER 641.

(House Bill 814)

AN ACT to repeal, and re-enact, with amendments, Section 1
of Chapter 570 of the Acts of the General Assembly of