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attendance upon the sessions of said Court, but not more than 156
days in any one year, plus the sum of One Hundred Dollars ($100.-
00) per year for travelling expenses. From and after the beginning
of the term of office of the judges of the orphans' court of Frede-
rick County who are elected thereto in the month of November 1958,
the annual compensation for each of such judges shall be in the
amount of fifteen hundred dollars ($1,500.00) with no additional
allowance for expenses.

(d) Annual travel expenses in certain counties.—The judges of
the orphans' court for Charles, [Frederick,] St. Mary's, and Car-
roll counties shall be allowed one hundred dollars ($100.00) per year
for travelling expenses, payable quarterly.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1957.

Approved March 18, 1957.

CHAPTER 227
(Senate Bill 435)

AN ACT to authorize and empower the County Commissioners of
Frederick County to borrow an amount not to exceed Four Million
Dollars ($4,000,000.), and to issue notes and/or bonds therefor,
for the purpose of making additions or alterations to existing
school buildings, to acquire land and construct new schools, to
purchase equipment and to provide for the levy of taxes to pay
the interest on and to retire said notes and/or bonds.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the County Commissioners of Frederick County, a body cor-
porate, in order to provide funds for the purpose of making additions
or alterations to existing school buildings, to purchase land and erect
thereon new school buildings, to purchase new equipment for exist-
ing and newly constructed schools and to pay architects and other
professional fees in connection with such construction, is hereby
authorized and empowered to borrow, from time to time, in such
amounts as it shall deem necessary, money on the faith and credit
of said County, and to issue therefor notes or bonds, provided that
in the aggregate said notes and bonds shall not exceed the sum of
Four Million Dollars ($4,000,000.), and provided that said notes
and/or bonds shall bear a rate of interest not exceeding four per
cent per annum; and provided further that if said money or any
part thereof shall be borrowed by note or notes, such note or notes
shall be signed by the President of the County Commissioners and
the Treasurer of Frederick County and have the seal of said County
affixed thereto; and provided further that if said money or any part
thereof shall be borrowed by the sale of bonds that said bonds shall

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