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school buildings. Said Board of Education shall have full
authority to contract for, supervise, direct and control such
work in such manner as in their discretion they may deem to
the best public interest, and full power is given to them to
employ and pay out of the said funds all architects, builders,
or other persons, supervisors or agents, as to them may seem
advisable and necessary; and the Board of Education of Wi-
comico County and the County Commissioners of Wicomico
County shall jointly agree and determine what part of the
aforesaid funds shall be used for, or allocated to, each of the
aforesaid school buildings.

SEC. 5. And lye it further enacted, That for the purpose of
paying the principal and interest on said bonds as they re-
spectively become payable and mature, the County Commis-
sioners of Wicomico County shall levy, for the first year fol-
lowing the date of the issue of said bonds, and annually there-
after until all said bonds shall mature and be paid, a tax upon
all of the assessable property in Wicomico County sufficient to
pay the annual interest on said bonds outstanding from time
to time, and to pay the principal of said bonds as they mature,
said taxes to be collected as other taxes levied in said County
are collected. Said tax shall be in addition to all other taxes
authorized or limited by law.

SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That all bonds issued un-
der the authority of this Act shall be exempt from taxation by
the State of Maryland and by the counties and municipalities
of said State.

SEC. 7, And be it further enacted, That this Act is hereby
declared to be an emergency law and necessary for the imme-
diate preservation of the public health and safety and having
been passed upon by 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 March 16, 1945.

CHAPTER 290.
(House Bill 422)

AN ACT to ratify the sale by the Board of Education of
Wicomico County, Maryland, to William T. Holland and
S. Norman Holland of a part of the "Academy Lot" situate