426                              Laws of Maryland                      [Ch. 312

year and in the event the proceeds from the taxes so levied in any
such fiscal year shall prove inadequate for the above purposes, ad-
ditional taxes shall be levied in the succeeding fiscal year to make
up any such deficiency. The County may apply to the payment of
principal and interest of any bonds issued hereunder any funds
received by it from the State of Maryland, the United States of
America, any agency or instrumentality thereof, or from any other
source, if such funds are granted for the purpose of assisting the
County in Regional County Libraries construction and to the extent
of any such funds received or receivable in any fiscal year the taxes
hereby required to be levied may be reduced proportionately.

Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That the County is hereby
further authorized and empowered, at any time and from time to
time to issue its bonds in the manner hereinabove described for the
purpose of refunding, upon purchase or redemption, any bonds
issued hereunder. The validity of any such refunding bonds shall
in no way be dependent upon or related to the validity or invalidity
of the obligations so refunded. The powers herein granted with
respect to the issuance of bonds, and also the limitations herein on
such powers shall be applicable to the issuance of refunding bonds.
Said refunding bonds may be issued by the County for the purpose
of providing it with funds to purchase in the open market any of
its outstanding bonds issued hereunder, prior to the maturity there-
of, or for the purpose of providing it with funds for the redemption
prior to maturity of any outstanding bonds issued hereunder which
are, by their terms, redeemable. The resolution authorizing the
issue of any such refunding bonds shall describe the issue or issues
of bonds of the County so to be refunded, and no issue of such re-
funding bonds shall exceed in amount the par amount of such bonds
so described in said resolution. No such refunding bonds shall
actually be delivered to the purchaser or purchasers thereof more
than six (6) months in advance of redemption date or dates of
bonds to be redeemed and refunded and the proceeds of the sale of
any such refunding bonds shall be segregated and set apart by the
County as a separate trust fund to be used solely for the purpose
of paying the purchase or redemption prices of the bonds to be re-
funded.

Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That, in the issuance of any of
the bonds authorized hereby, the County may, prior to the prepara-
tion of definitive bonds or obligations, issue interim certificates or
temporary bonds, with or without coupons, exchangeable for defini-
tive bonds when such bonds or obligations have been executed and
are available for delivery, provided, however, that any such interim
certificates or temporary bonds shall be issued in all respects sub-
ject to the restrictions and requirements set forth herein. The Coun-
ty may, by appropriate resolution, provide for the replacement of any
bonds issued hereunder which shall have become mutilated or be
destroyed or lost upon such conditions and after receiving such in-
demnity as the County may think it proper and necessary to stip-
ulate and require.

Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That any and all obligations
issued pursuant to the authority of this Act, the interest payable
thereon, and the income derived therefrom in the hands of the hold-