848 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 648

Board of Education of Howard County to provide certain
transportation for children attending certain schools in
Howard County and authorizing the County Commissioners
of Howard County to appropriate certain funds, and to pay
the same to the Board of Education of Howard County to be
used by the Board 'for the purpose aforesaid.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That two new sections be and they are hereby added to
Article 14 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland (1930
Edition), title "Howard County", sub-title "Schools", said new
sections to be known as Section 291A and Section 291B, to
follow immediately after Section 291 of said Article, and to
read as follows:

291 A. All children who attend parochial schools in Howard
County, which schools do not receive State aid, and who reside
on or along or near to the public highways of Howard County,
on which there is now or hereafter operated a public school bus
or conveyance provided by the Board of Education of Howard
County for transporting children to and from the public schools
of Howard County, shall be entitled to transportation on the
said buses or conveyances, subject to the conditions herein-
after 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, without changing the routes of said buses or convey-
ances now or hereafter established by said Board of Education
of Howard County for transporting children to and from the
public schools. Such transportation may be provided by the
Board of Education, as aforesaid, for all the children attend-
ing schools described herein, upon the same terms and con-
ditions as now or as may be hereafter established by the Board
of Education of Howard County for children attending public
•schools.

291B. The County Commissioners of Howard County are
hereby authorized to appropriate annually to the Board of
Education of Howard County, from any funds received by said
Howard County for any general County purpose and not
derived from any tax levied on real property, such sum as the
said Board of Education may request to enable it to defray
any costs incurred by it in carrying into effect the provisions
of Section 291A and to establish new bus routes, in the discre-
tion of the Board of Education of Howard County, for the
transportation to and from school of children attending schools
not receiving State aid. The transportation of children to and
from schools not receiving State aid shall be upon such rea-
sonable terms and conditions as the Board of Education may