190 LAWS OF MARYLAND. ' [CH. 190

Circuit Court for said county in a penal sum to be fixed by
said judge, conditioned upon faithful discharge of the duties of
said Treasurer. From the money so received the Treasurer of
the said Kensington Volunteer Fire Department, Incorporated,
its successor or successors, shall upon approval of the Fire
Board hereinafter created, pay all proper costs, expenses,
claims and demands and such principal and interest on any
encumbrance on real estate or equipment owned by said Ken-
sington Volunteer Fire Department, Incorporated, as may be
due, that are necessary properly to maintain and operate said
Kensington Volunteer Fire Department, Incorporated. Should
the tax so collected in any one year be inadequate to defray
the said costs, expenses, claims and demands such deficiency
may be added to the amount required for the next ensuing
year and be levied and collected in the next year's taxes, pro-
vided the rate shall not be in excess of that above mentioned.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect June 1, 1943.

Approved March 18, 1943.

CHAPTER 190.
(House Bill 206)

AN ACT to authorize and empower and, under certain cir-
cumstances, to direct the County Commissioners of Mont-
gomery County to incur an indebtedness in an amount not
to exceed Forty Thousand Dollars (f40, 000. 00) for the pur-
pose of enabling said County to assist the Kensington
Volunteer Fire Department, Incorporated in the construc-
tion and equipment of a new Fire Department building and
the purchase of needed additional fire fighting equipment
and apparatus; to authorize and empower said County Com-
missioners of Montgomery County to evidence said indebted-
ness by the issue and sale, at public or private sale, of not
exceeding Forty Thousand Dollars (f40, 000. 00) aggregate
par amount of its negotiable coupon bonds, said bonds to be
issued upon the full faith and credit of said County but to
be payable, as to principal and interest, primarily from the
proceeds of the special ad valorem tax authorized to be
levied by Section 586 of Article 16 of the Code of Public
Local Laws of Maryland (as contained in the Code of Public
Local Laws of Montgomery County, 1939 Edition); author-
izing and empowering the Board of County Commissioners
of Montgomery County to determine the method, manner