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and the State of Maryland, and may provide and furnish any
or all persons engaged in public defense within Baltimore
County with protective armor, equipment, supplies, and ma-
terials and facilities of whatever kind or nature that the said
Commissioners may consider to be necessary and proper. The
said Commissioners may engage the services of persons to
assist in public defense and may fix the compensation of such
persons, may lease, or purchase land and construct buildings
thereon, and may do all other things needful and necessary to
protect and safeguard the people and property within Balti-
more County from actual or threatened armed invasion, bomb-
ing, or insurrection, and may alleviate their suffering resulting
from enemy action of any kind, fire, sflood, disaster, epidemics
of disease, or other such emergencies. All acts done and all
monies expended by said County Commissioners for any or all
of such purposes, either heretofore or hereafter, including
particularly, but not by way of limitation, all acts done and
all monies expended by the County Commissioners for the
purpose of providing for defense because of the war between
the United States and Germany, Italy and Japan, including
the purchase of equipment for Civilian Defense organization
and maintenance, the employment of administrative and tech-
nical aid in the interest of Civilian Defense, the purchase of
medical supplies for casualty stations, and the purchase of
arms, ammunition and providing and furnishing of telephone
service and other service and supplies within Baltimore County
are hereby ratified and confirmed as just and lawful acts of
the said County Commissioners.

104D. In order to further carry out the provisions of this
Act the said County Commissioners are hereby authorized and
empowered, at any time, or from time to time, to borrow on
the faith and credit of Baltimore County such sum or sums of
money or other article or articles of value in an amount or
amounts not to exceed the appropriations made under the fore-
going sections of this Act; such borrowing may be made by
public or private sale of certificates of indebtedness, or other
evidence of debt, or by direct negotiations with any State or
National Banking Institution or Institutions or other lending
agency. The said Commissioners are further authorized and
empowered to issue certificates of indebtedness or promissory
notes in such denominations and such amounts, and at such
interest rate or rates and for such period not exceeding two
years as the said County Commissioners may by resolution
determine. Such certificates of indebtedness or promissory
notes shall be executed by the President of the Board of
County Commissioners of Baltimore County and attested by
the Clerk of said Board. Such promissory notes or certificates