382                              Laws of Maryland                      [Ch. 119

the active members of the Rock Hall Volunteer Fire Company shall
be limited to sixty active members, the active members of the Bet-
terton Volunteer Fire Company shall be limited to fifty active mem-
bers, and the active members of each of the volunteer fire companies
of Kent County shall be limited to forty active members, and that
any rescue squad in Kent County shall be limited to a maximum
of twenty-five members and the active members of each of the
volunteer fire companies in Howard County shall be limited [to
seventy-five active members,] as follows: Company 1, Elkridge;
Company 2, Ellicott City; Company 3, West Friendship; Company
4, Lisbon, 50 members each; Company 5, Clarksville, 75 members;
Company 6, Savage, 60 members, and only active members shall
be covered by the provisions of this section. The County Commis-
sioners of Prince George's County shall pay 40 percent of the cost
of such insurance to each volunteer fire company or volunteer
rescue squad company and the volunteer fire company or volunteer
rescue squad company shall pay 60 percent of the cost of said
insurance; and the County Commissioners of Prince George's County
shall annually levy upon the assessable property of Prince George's
County a tax sufficient to pay for such portion of the cost of such
insurance.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
July 1, 1972.

Approved April 26, 1972.

CHAPTER 119
(Senate Bill 923)

AN ACT to authorize the creation of a State debt in the aggregate
amount of One Million Dollars ($1,000,000), the proceeds thereof
to be used exclusively for purpose of supplementing grants made
to the State Department of Health and Mental Hygiene for public
and other nonprofit nursing homes in this State by the Federal
Government under the provisions of "Subchapter IV—Construc-
tion of Hospitals and Other Facilities," USCA, Title 42, Sections
291, et seq., as amended from time to time, by granting financial
allotments for the construction and equipping of such nursing
homes, and providing generally for the issue and sale of Certifi-
cates of Indebtedness BONDS evidencing such loan, and provid-
ing for a certain contingency whereby this Act may be repealed
and of no further effect.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the Board of Public Works is hereby authorized and empowered
to issue a State Loan to be known as the "Nursing Home Loan of
1972," in the aggregate amount of One Million Dollars ($1,000,000).

The certificates of indebtedness (hereinafter called "bonds") evi-
dencing said loan may be issued all at one time or, in groups, from
time to time, as hereinafter provided. All of said bonds evidencing
said loan, or any group thereof, shall be issued according to a serial
maturity plan to be established in the resolution authorizing the
issuance of said loan or any portions PORTION thereof, which plan