MARVIN MANDEL, Governor                            1243

The Public Local Laws of Caroline County
Section 22, 23 and 24

Article 6 — Public Local Laws of Maryland
(1965 Edition, as amended)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That Sections 22, 23 and 24 of the Public Local
Laws of Caroline County being Article 6 of the Code of
Public Local Laws of Maryland (1965 Edition, as amended)
be and they are hereby repealed and re—enacted, with
amendments, to read as follows:

Article 6

22.

After the said Board of Estimates shall have
carefully ascertained all of the various estimates and
fixed them in such amounts as they shall think or
consider proper, the said Board of County Commissioners
shall on or before the 1st day of July as aforesaid levy,
in accordance with law, upon all of the taxable property
of Caroline County, and upon all property subject to
taxation therein, the aggregate amount of said estimates,
less any revenue certain to be paid the county during the
ensuing fiscal year from sources other than the levy and
properly to be appropriated toward said estimates and
less any surplus carried over as hereinafter set forth in
this Act, and in addition thereto they shall levy not
[less than ten thousand dollars nor more than twenty
thousand dollars] MORE THAN TWO PERCENT OF THE TOTAL OF
ESTIMATES, which additional sum shall be added to the
total of estimates, and included in the levy; and no
other sum of money shall be levied at all. Said levy of
taxes made as aforesaid shall become due and payable and
shall be collected in the manner and at the times now or
hereafter fixed by law. The said additional sum [of ten
thousand dollars, but not more than twenty thousand
dollars, or so much thereof as may be levied,] shall be
[an emergency] A CONTINGENCY fund [to be used for
emergency purposes, and shall be] dedicated and"
appropriated to meet any unexpected demand which may
arise after the said levy has been made, as hereinafter
set forth.

23.

The revenue derived from all the sources thereof
shall be devoted absolutely to paying and defraying the
said estimates in detail and in no event shall any money
be diverted from the estimate to which it is dedicated
for any purpose; nor shall any excess of income over the