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have been or may hereafter be purchased by them at sales for
State and County taxes, including agreements with the pur-
chasers of such land by which the County Commissioners shall
undertake to guarantee the validity of the tax sale by which
said land was acquired by them, and agreements with any
person, firm or corporation by which said County Commis-
sioners shall agree to indemnify and save harmless such per-
son, firm or corporation from any loss which may be sustained
by reason of any contract or agreement entered into by said
person, firm or corporation guaranteeing the validity of the
tax title of said County Commissioners to such land.

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 of the members of each of the two Houses of the General
Assembly, the game shall take effect immediately upon its
passage.

Approved April 15, 1941.

CHAPTER 155.
(House Bill 339)

AN ACT to authorize and direct the County Commissioners of
Allegany County to contribute to the Board of Governors of
the Memorial Hospital of Cumberland, a body politic and
corporate of the State of Maryland, the sum of One Hun-
dred and Fifty Thousand Dollars ($150, 000. 00) upon condi-
tion that a like sum is contributed to said corporation by
the Mayor and City Council of Cumberland in order to
finance the erection of an addition and the construction of
alterations and improvements to said hospital; to authorize
and empower the County Commissioners of Allegany County
to provide said contribution in whole or in part from any
unrestricted funds of the County not otherwise allocated to
any public purpose or to provide said contribution by bor-
rowing upon the faith and credit of said County not exceed-
ing the sum of One Hundred and Fifty Thousand Dollars
($150, 000. 00) and issuing and selling bonds to evidence said
borrowing in the amount thereof; to provide that said
bonds, if issued, shall mature serially in equal annual in-
stallments over a period of fifteen (15) years beginning with
the year 1942 to and including the year 1956, shall be known
as "Memorial Hospital Addition Bonds, Issue of 1941",