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or aiding in building, making additions and improvements
to and equipping the aforesaid school buildings. Said
Board of Education shall have full authority to contract
for, supervise, direct and control such work in such man-
ner as in their discretion they may deem to the best public
interest, and full power is given them to employ and pay
out of the said funds all architects, builders, or other per-
sons, supervisors or agents, as to them may seem advisable
and necessary; and the Board of Education of Wicomico
County and the County Commissioners of Wicomico Coun-
ty shall jointly agree and determine what part of the afore-
said funds shall be used for, or allocated to, each of the
aforesaid school buildings.

SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That for the purpose
of paying the principal and interest on said bonds as they
respectively become payable and mature, the County Com-
missioners of Wicomico County shall levy, for the first
year following the date of the issue of said bonds, and
annually thereafter until all said bonds shall mature and
be paid, a tax upon all of the assessable property in Wico-
mico County sufficient to pay the annual interest on said
bonds outstanding from time to time, and to pay the prin-
cipal of said bonds as they mature, said taxes to be col-
lected 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
under the authority of this Act shall be exempt from tax-
ation 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
immediate preservation of the public health and safety and
having been passed 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 April 22, 1949.

CHAPTER 294
(Senate Bill 466)

AN ACT to repeal Sections 720-724, inclusive, of Article
22 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland (1930
Edition), title "Washington County", sub-title "Turn-