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and principal which will be payable to the close of the next ensuing
taxable year on all bonds theretofore issued or authorized by resolu-
tion of the Board of Public Works to be issued, and the governing
bodies of each of the Counties and of Baltimore City shall forth-
with levy and collect such a tax at such rate.

All matters committed by this Act to the discretion of the Board
of Public Works shall be determined by a majority of said Board.

Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That, if any funds provided
by this Act shall not have been encumbered within three (3) years
from the effective date of this Act, then such funds shall be deemed
to have been abandoned. If the total loan authorized herein shall have
been issued within three (3) years from the effective date of this
Act then the amount specified herein for said abandoned funds shall
be transferred to the Annuity Bond Fund and be applied to the
debt service requirements of the State. If, however, the total loan
authorized herein shall not have been issued within three (3) years
from the effective date of this Act, then the total issuable bonds
authorized herein shall be reduced by the amount specified herein
for said abandoned funds.

(a) For the purposes of this Act, funds are encumbered when a
project is approved for a grant under this program for a specific
amount by actions of the Board of Public Works.

SEC. 8. And be it further enacted, That, if any word, phrase,
provision or portion of this Act shall be held in a court of competent
jurisdiction to be unconstitutional or invalid, the unconstitutionality
or invalidity shall apply only to such word, phrase, provision or
portion, and for this purpose the provisions of this Act are declared
to be severable.

Sec. 9. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1972.

Approved April 26, 1972.

CHAPTER 120
(Senate Bill 924)

AN ACT to authorize the creation of a State Debt in the aggregate
amount of One Million Dollars ($1,000,000), the proceeds to be
used exclusively for purpose of supplementing grants made to
the State Department of Health and Mental Hygiene for public
and other nonprofit Community Mental Health Center Components
or Mental Retardation Facilities in this State by the Federal
Government under the provisions of Subchapter II—State Mental
Retardation Facilities," Section 2675 et seq., and Subchapter III—
Community Mental Health Centers," Section 2681 et seq., USCA,
Title 42, Chapter 33, as amended from time to time, by granting
financial allotments for the construction, acquisition, and/or reno-
vation and equipping of Community Mental Health Center Com-
ponents and Mental Retardation Facilities, and providing gen-