J. MILLARD TAWES, GOVERNOR                          1091

tolls, rents, revenues or receipts shall be periodically deposited
and which shall be used for the payment or prior redemption, as
agreed, of any such revenue bonds or obligations and the interest
thereon;

(i) to employ and fix the duties and compensation of special
engineers, attorneys, accountants, architects, planners and other
persons necessary to enable the County to effectively carry out the
powers hereby conferred;

(j) to appoint, with respect to any project or projects, a commit-
tee of not more than five persons, residents of Charles County, of
whom one shall be a member of the Board of County Commissioners,
to represent the County in all matters relating to any such project
or projects;

(k) to accept grants or gifts of property or money from any State
or Federal Agency for the purpose of providing any project, as here-
inafter defined, and to make appropriate or necessary contracts with
any such State or Federal Agency and generally to do all acts or
things necessary or convenient in pursuance of the powers hereby
conferred.

84B. As used in Section 84A, the term "project" shall mean and
include any structure, facility, factory, manufacturing or industrial
plant and any revenue producing public facility needed or desirable
for the welfare and comfort of the residents of Charles County, and
the land or site of such project and any appurtenant land which the
County deems to be necessary for the efficient operation of any
project, but such term shall not include any public facility or struc-
ture which the County, or any agency or instrumentality thereof,
is authorized to construct or provide under any other law. To the
extent incurred with respect to any such project, the County shall
include, in the cost of such project, the cost of all land, property,
rights, easements and franchises deemed necessary for the con-
struction, development or improvement of any project, the cost of
all labor, materials, machinery and equipment, financing charges,
cost of engineering, architectural and legal services and of plans,
specifications, surveys, estimates of cost and of revenues and other
expenses necessary or incident to determine the feasibility or prac-
ticability of any such project, administrative expenses and such
other expenses as may be necessary or incident to financing any
project herein authorized, including interest on money borrowed
for a project prior to and during construction and for not more
than one year after completion of construction. In order to pro-
vide further for the initiation of any project, the County may ap-
propriate from its general funds such amounts as may be necessary
for the purpose, not exceeding Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000.)
for any one project, provided that, if and when any such project
is undertaken and financed, as provided in Section 84C, such appro-
priation shall be treated as part of the cost of the project and shall
be reimbursed to the general funds of the County. None of the
definitions contained in this section and none of the powers conferred
by Section 84A of this Article shall be construed to include or con-
fer upon the County the power to construct, maintain and operate
any electric, gas or railroad utility or to acquire by condemnation
any of the property of any such utility rendering electric, gas or
railroad service.