HERBERT R. O'CONOR, GOVERNOR. 1055

reside on or along or near to the public highways of St.
Mary's County, on which there is now or hereafter oper-
ated a public school bus or conveyance provided by the
Board of Education of said County for transporting chil-
dren to and from the public schools of St. Mary's County,
shall be entitled to transportation on the said buses or
conveyances, and the same shall be provided for them by
the said Board of Education of St. Mary's County, subject
to the conditions hereinafter set forth, from a point on
the said public highways nearest or most accessible to
their respective homes to a point on said public highways
nearest or most accessible to their respective schools, with-
out changing the routes of said buses or conveyances now
or hereafter established by said Board of Education of
St. Mary's County for transporting children to and from
the public schools and such transportation shall be pro-
vided by the Board of Education, as aforesaid, for all
the children attending schools described herein, upon the
same terms and conditions as now or as may be hereafter
established by the Board of Education of St. Mary's County
for children attending public schools.

202D. The County Commissioners of St. Mary's
County are hereby authorized to levy and appropriate
annually sufficient funds to defray any costs incurred by
it in carrying into effect the provisions of Section 202C
and for the establishment of new bus routes, if in their
discretion the Board of Education of St. Mary's County
and the County Commissioners of said County deem it
desirable to establish new routes and to purchase addi-
tional buses, for the transportation to and from school of
children attending schools not receiving State aid. The
transportation of children to and from schools not receiv-
ing State aid shall be upon such reasonable terms and
conditions as the Board of Education may from time to
time determine, but in no event shall the amount charged
children attending such schools for using said buses or
conveyances be greater or less than the amount charged
children attending the public schools for the same kind of
transportation.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act is
hereby declared to be an emergency law and necessary for
the immediate preservation of the public health and safety,
and being passed by a yea and nay vote, supported by
three-fifths of all the members elected to each of the two
Houses of the General Assembly, the same shall take effect
from the date of its passage.

Approved May 2, 1941.