HERBERT R. O'CONOR, GOVERNOR. 1701

which schools do not receive State aid, and who reside on
or along or near to the public highways of Montgomery
County, on which there is now or hereafter operated a
public school bus or conveyance provided by the Board of
Education of said County for transporting children to and
from the public schools of Montgomery County, shall be
entitled to transportation on the said buses or conveyances,
and the same shall be provided for them by the said Board
of Education of Montgomery County, subject to the condi-
tions hereinafter 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 conveyances now or hereafter estab-
lished by said Board of Education of Montgomery County
for transporting children to and from the public schools
and such transportation shall be provided by the Board of
Education, as aforesaid, for all the children attending
schools described herein, upon the same terms and condi-
tions as now or as may be hereafter established by the
Board of Education of Montgomery County for children
attending public schools.

998. The County Commissioners of Montgomery County
are hereby authorized to levy and appropriate annually
sufficient funds to defray any costs incurred by it in carry-
ing into effect the provisions of Section 997 and for the
establishment of new bus routes, if in their discretion the
Board of Education of Montgomery County and the County
Commissioners of said County deem it desirable to estab-
lish new routes and to purchase additional buses, 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 reasonable terms and conditions as the Board
of Education may from time to time determine, but in no
event shall the amount charged children attending such
schools for using said buses or conveyances be greater or
less than the amount charged children attending the public
schools for the same kind of transportation.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act is here-
by declared to be an emergency law and necessary for the
immediate preservation of the public health and safety,
and being 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, the same shall take effect from
the date of its passage.

Approved May 4, 1945.