J. MILLARD TAWES, Governor                       1425

meet these obligations and expenses as they mature or become pay-
able, said tax to be determined, levied, collected and paid over in
the following manner: At least thirty days before the tax levying
period of each year, the respective County Council and Board of
County Commissioners shall certify to the Commission, by Counties,
the whole valuation of assessable property within the District. The
Commission shall then determine the amounts necessary to be raised
by each County for the ensuing year for the purposes specified herein,
which amounts shall be determined by the ratio that the cost of transit
facilities located in each County bears to the total cost of transit facili-
ties located in both counties, THE ALLOCATION OF OBLIGA-
TIONS AGREED TO UNDER PARAGRAPH (A) OF SECTION 12,
except that the administrative expenses of the Commission shall be
borne by each county, as set forth in Section 15 of this Act. After
deducting all amounts in hand available for such purposes, if any, it
shall determine the number of cents per $100 necessary for each Coun-
ty to raise the said amounts and shall so certify to both the County
Council and the Board of County Commissioners. The said County
Council and Board of County Commissioners in their next annual
levy shall levy said tax on all land and improvements and any other
property assessed for County tax purposes within the District,
which tax 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 penalties and in every
respect be treated the same as county taxes. The tax so levied, for
the ensuing year shall be collected by the respective tax collecting
authorities, and every sixty days they shall remit the whole amount
of tax collected to the Commission.

15. Administrative Expenses of the Commission

The Commission annually shall submit to the County Council of
Montgomery County and to the Board of County Commissioners
of Prince George's County a budget of its requirements for adminis-
trative expenses for the next ensuing year. There shall be included
in said budget as an expense of the District, the Maryland share
of the expenses of the Joint Commission to Consider Matters Relating
to Passenger Carrier Facilities in the Washington Metropolitan
Area, which Joint Commission has been empowered by Joint Reso-
lution of the General Assembly of Maryland to negotiate an inter-
state compact between Maryland, Virginia and the District of
Columbia dealing with transportation. The obligation of Montgomery
and Prince George's Counties , AFTER BUDGET APPROVAL, to
appropriate for the administrative budget of the Commission shall be
allocated between such Counties upon the basis of population as re-
flected by the latest population statistics of the Bureau of the Census.
Upon the request of either County, the Commission shall make the
allocation upon estimates of population prepared in a manner ap-
proved by the Commission. Such budget shall be limited solely to
the administrative expenses of the Commission and shall not include
any funds for construction or acquisition of transit facilities or per-
forming of transit service. NOTWITHSTANDING ANY OTHER
PROVISION OF THIS ARTICLE, THE RESPECTIVE GOVERN-
ING BODIES SHALL HAVE THE RIGHT TO REVIEW AND TO
APPROVE IN WHOLE OR IN PART THE ADMINISTRATIVE
BUDGET OF THE COMMISSION, AND THE AGREEMENT OF
THE GOVERNING BODIES OF BOTH COUNTIES SHALL BE