WM. PRESTON LANE, JR., GOVERNOR. 1295

122 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1918, shall receive
an annual salary of $4, 200. 00, payable monthly, and the mem-
ber of said Commission, not the full-time member shall receive
an annual salary of $3, 200. 00, payable monthly.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect June 1, 1949.

Approved April 29, 1949.

CHAPTER 540

(House Bill 285)

AN ACT to authorize the Washington Suburban Sanitary
Commission to issue its bonds in a sum not exceeding
f 1, 000, 000 for constructing storm water or surface drainage
systems in the Washington Suburban Sanitary District and
to provide for the payment thereof and the interest thereon.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of
Chapter 526 of the Acts of the General Assembly of Maryland
of 1943, as amended by Chapter 917 of the Acts of the Gen-
eral Assembly of 1945, the Washington Suburban Sanitary
Commission is empowered from time to time to issue its bonds
in an amount not exceeding $1, 000, 000 in such denominations
and for such terms, not exceeding twenty-five years, and at
such rate, not exceeding four per cent (4%), as it may deter-
mine, such bonds to be the general obligation of the Washing-
ton Suburban Sanitary District, guaranteed by both Prince
George's and Montgomery Counties as the construction bonds
of the Commission are now guaranteed under the provisions of
Chapter 122 of the Acts of 1918 and the amendments thereto.
This authorization is to be in addition to any bonds issued
and outstanding under the Acts hereinbefore referred to. That
for the purpose of paying the; principal of said bonds as they
mature and the interest thereon, the County Commissioners
of Prince George's County and the County Council of Mont-
gomery County are directed to levy annually upon all of the
property assessed for county tax purposes within the said
Sanitary District, upon the certification of the Washington
Suburban Sanitary Commission an ad valorem tax at a rate
necessary to produce annually the sum required to pay the
principal and interest for the current year on said bonds or
any part thereof outstanding, which tax shall be levied and