AUTHORIZED, EMPOWERED AND DIRECTED TO LEVY IN
EACH YEAR SO long as any of said bonds are outstanding and
unpaid, an ad valorem tax on all property subject to taxation within
Charles County, sufficient in rate and amount to pay the interest pay-
able in said year on all outstanding bonds and the principal of all
bonds maturing in said year, the proceeds of said tax to be kept in a
special fund and in no case to be used for any other purpose. In case
such bonds shall be issued in any year after the making of the regu-
lar levy for that year, then the County Commissioners of Charles
County are empowered, authorized and directed to pay any and all
interest becoming due before the next levy, out of any other funds at
their disposal, and to levy at the next succeeding levy an amount
sufficient to reimburse such other funds.

Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1965.

Approved May 4, 1965.

CHAPTER 627
(Senate Bill 361)

AN ACT to add new Sections 616A through 616R, inclusive, to
Article 27 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1957 Edition and
1964 Supplement), title "Crimes and Punishments", to be under
the new sub-title "Detainers", and new sub-headings "Interstate
Agreement on Detainers" and "Supplemental Provisions", to fol-
low immediately after Section 616 thereof, to declare the policy
of this State toward charges outstanding against a prisoner,
detainers based on untried indictments, informations or complaints,
and difficulties in securing speedy trial of persons already incar-
cerated in other jurisdictions; to provide that this State become
a party to an Interstate Agreement on Detainers; to establish pro-
cedures for the prompt trial of certain untried indictments, infor-
mations and complaints which are the basis for detainers filed by
this or another party state to said Agreement against certain pris-
oners incarcerated in this or another party state to said Agreement
upon the request of such prisoners or of appropriate officers of the

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Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That for the purpose of paying
the principal and interest on any bonds issued hereunder, as they
mature, the County Commissioners of Charles County are hereby
authorized to provide by proper resolution for the pledging of all
monies, or so much thereof as may be necessary, received from the
State of Maryland under the provisions of Sections 222 and 222A of
Article 77 of the Annotated Code of Maryland, and any amendments
thereto, providing for school building incentive funds insofar as

said funds may not have already been pledge. In the event said

funds are so pledged and are insufficient in any one year to pay said
principal and interest, any such deficiency shall be made up under
the full taxing power hereinafter provided for in this section. For
the purpose of paying the principal and interest of said bonds, or

so much thereof as may not be provided for by said incentive funds

is so pledged, the County Commissioners of Charles County are
hereby authorized, empowered and directed to levy in each year so