296                               LAWS OF MARYLAND                        [CH. 205

CESS WEIGHT, GIVE A CREDIT FOR ANY EXCESS WEIGHT
CAUSED BY AN ACCUMULATION OF CINDERS, SNOW OR
ICE.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1955.

Approved April 1, 1955.

CHAPTER 205
(Senate Bill 198)

AN ACT to authorize and empower the Board of Education of
Anne Arundel County, with the approval of the County Commis-
sioners of Anne Arundel County, from time to time, to borrow
money in order to finance the construction or extension of public
schools in said County, as herein defined, and to effect such bor-
rowing by the issuance and sale to the highest bidder or bidders
at public sale of its bonds upon its full faith and credit and upon
the full faith and credit of the County Commissioners of Anne
Arundel County, subject to the limitation that the total indebted-
ness that may be incurred hereunder shall not exceed Eight Mil-
lion Dollars ($8,000,000) in the aggregate; empowering said
Board to fix And determine, by Resolution, the form, tenor, in-
terest rate or method of arriving at the same, terms, including
redemption and registration provisions, conditions, maturities,
and all other details incident or necessary to the issuance, public
sale and delivery of said bonds, without reference to any other
law heretofore enacted; prescribing the method and manner of
selling said bonds at public sale; empowering said Board, subject
to certain limitations, to sell said bonds at, above or below the
par value thereof; empowering said Board to provide for the
redemption of said bonds in advance of maturity and to provide
for the payment of a premium in excess of par in connection with
any such redemption; expressly permitting said Board, in its
discretion, to provide for the execution and authentication of
said bonds in facsimile, both on behalf of said Board and said
County; empowering and directing the County Commissioners
of Anne Arundel County to unconditionally guarantee the payment
of principal and interest of any such bonds so issued; empowering
and directing said Board and said County to apply to the payment
of principal and interest of said bonds any funds received from
the State of Maryland and the United States which may be prop-
erly allocable to said purpose; empowering and directing said
County to contract to levy and to levy, impose or fix annually ad
valorem taxes which, in addition to any State or Federal allot-
ments will provide funds sufficient for the payment of said matur-
ing principal and interest; excepting the authority hereby con-
ferred from certain local laws and exempting any of said bonds
so issued and the interest payable thereon from all State, county
and municipal taxation in the State of Maryland.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That, as used herein, the term "Board" shall mean the public body

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