1768 LAWS OF MARYLAND [CH. 761

erty within the District by [the County Commissioners of]
Montgomery and Prince George's Counties respectively a
tax of [four cents (4c) on each One Hundred Dollars with-
in that portion of the said District within Montgomery
County and a tax of] three cents (3c) on each One Hun-
dred Dollars of assessable property within [that portion
of] the said district [within Prince George's County].
Each of said [Boards of County Commissioners] Counties
is hereby directed in its next annual levy and annually
thereafter, except as hereinafter provided, to levy said tax
on all property in its county within the District both real
and personal, assessed for county tax purposes, which
taxes shall be levied and collected as county taxes now are
or may be hereafter by law levied and collected, and have
the same priority rights, bear the same interest and pen-
alties and in every respect be treated the same as county
taxes. The proceeds of the collection of such tax shall be
paid to the Commission and shall constitute the adminis-
trative fund of the Commission. The expenditures of the
Commission for operating or administrative purposes shall
be within the amount of such fund, together, with such
additional funds as may be appropriated or contributed
for such purposes by said [County Commissioners] Coun-
ties or by the General Assembly of Maryland or by the
United States or by private donors.

At least thirty (30) days prior to the ends of the fiscal
years of Montgomery and Prince George's Counties, re-
spectively, beginning in the year 1954, the Commission
shall certify and submit to the appropriate fiscal officers
of said Counties the Unexpended Balances in the hands of
the Commission from monies received by the Commission
from the administrative taxes theretofore levied by said
Counties, respectively, as hereinabove provided. If said
Unexpended Balance with respect to either County shall
exceed the sum of One Hundred Thousand Dollars ($100, -
000. 00), said County may, if it so elects, deduct said ex-
cess from its estimate of the amount of money which will
be raised in the next succeeding fiscal year by the levy of
said administrative tax and may, in such fiscal year, levy
said tax at a rate which said County estimates will produce
an amount equal to the difference so arrived at, which said
amount will then be the amount which the County is obli-
gated to pay the Commission for administration in such
fiscal year pursuant to this Section; provided, however,
that for a period of two years from June 1, 1953 no ad-
ministrative tax shall be levied in that portion of the Dis-
trict beyond the former boundaries of said District as de-