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but the Board of County Commissioners may temporarily borrow
money on promissory note or notes on the faith and credit of Dor-
chester County, for the use of the county in anticipation of the receipt
of taxes levied for any year, provided that they shall not in the
manner and for the purpose aforesaid borrow in the aggregate more
than [Two Hundred and Fifty Thousand Dollars ($250,000.00)] Four
Hundred Thousand Dollars ($400,000.00), and such sum or any part
thereof so borrowed shall all be repaid and such demand fully satisfied
on or before the first day of December following the beginning of the
fiscal year in which said money is so borrowed, and the said Board of
County Commissioners shall not borrow any money for any purpose
between the first day of December and the thirty-first day of Decem-
ber ensuing, or the close of the fiscal year, except, however, such
certificates of indebtedness that may be issued from time to time by
the said County Commissioners upon the faith and credit of Dor-
chester County (1) for the maintenance and support of the public
schools of said county and (2) for the maintenance and repairs of the
county roads, bridges and ferries therein, not exceeding Two Hundred
and Fifty Thousand Dollars ($250,000.00) in any one fiscal year as
provided by Section 158 of this Article. In case of any deficiency in
revenue and taxation to meet the amount provided in the said
estimates, there shall be a pro-rata abatement of all appropriations
except for the payment of the State taxes and the principal and
interest of the county debt, and in case of any surplus arising in any
fiscal year, by reason of excess of income received from the estimated
revenue over the expenditures for such years, the said surplus shall
be passed by the Board of County Commissioners to a fund which
shall be a part of the revenue for the ensuing fiscal year.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1965.

Approved March 11, 1965.

CHAPTER 167
(House Bill 427)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 162 of
the Code of Public Local Laws of Allegany County (1963 Edition,
being Article 1 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland),
title "Allegany County," subtitle "Fire Companies," making man-
datory a certain additional payment by the County Commissioners
of Allegany County to the several fire departments, fire companies
and hose companies in the County.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 162 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Allegany County
(1963 Edition, being Article 1 of the Code of Public Local Laws of
Maryland), title "Allegany County," subtitle "Fire Companies," be
and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read
as follows:

162.

In addition to the amounts provided in Section 160 to be paid to
the several fire departments, fire companies, and hose companies,