104 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 45

tion and control of taxicabs within Montgomery County as
now or hereafter may be provided by law, and shall perform
such executive and other acts as may be assigned to him by
the Board of County Commissioners for Montgomery County
in the administration and enforcement of such rules and regu-
lations.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act is hereby
declared to be an emergency measure and necessary for the
immediate preservation of the public health and safety and
having been 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 of Maryland, the same shall take effect
from the date of its passage.

Approved June 1, 1948.

CHAPTER 45
(House Bill 11)

AN ACT to amend Section 1287 of Article 16 and Section
1424 of Article 17 of the Code of Public Local Laws of
Maryland providing for the issuance of bonds of the Wash-
ington Suburban Sanitary Commission.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 1287 of Article 16 of the Code of Public
Local Laws of Maryland (Flack's Code of the Public Local
Laws of Montgomery County, 1947) and Section 1424 of
Article 17 of said Code (Flack's Code of the Public Local
Laws of Prince George's County, 1943) as the same were
amended by Chapter 524 of the Acts of 1943. be and the same
are hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read
as follows:

1287 (1424). For the purpose of providing funds for the
design, construction, establishment, purchase or condemnation
of the water supply, sewerage and drainage system in the
Sanitary District, said Commission is authorized and em-
powered to issue bonds of the Sanitary District, from time to
time, in such amounts as it may deem necessary to carry on
its work, but the aggregate amount of bonds heretofore or
hereafter Issued under this section which may be outstand-
ing at any time, less the amount held in the joint sinking
fund account for the payment of the principal of said bonds,
shall not exceed fourteen per centum (14%) of the total
assessable basis of all property assessed for county taxation
purposes with the Sanitary District; provided, however, that
in computing the amount of bonds which may be issued