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LAWS OF MARYLAND

[Ch. 450

Pre—Release Center, including the payment of architects'
and engineers' fees.

SECTION 6. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That all
funds which may be appropriated at any time or from time
to time by the General Assembly in any Annual State
Budget Bill for the payment of principal and interest on
bonds issued pursuant to this Act shall be deposited in
the Annuity Bond Fund by the State Comptroller to be
applied to the payment of principal and interest on bonds
issued pursuant to this Act.

SECTION 7. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That the
payment of any funds under the provisions of this Act for
the purpose of providing a State grant to assist in the
acquisition of land and/or facilities for a Montgomery
County Pre—Release Center; and [[further to provide]] for
the purpose of providing for construction, renovation,
improvement and equipping of said Pre—Release Center
shall be contingent upon the provision by the County
Council of Montgomery County of at least an equal and
matching fund for this project from private IT and other 11
or public sources. The said County Council of Montgomery
County shall have until June 1, 1977, to present evidence
satisfactory to the Board of Public Works that it has
raised at least this equal and matching fund for the
purpose of providing a State grant to assist in the
acquisition of land and/or facilities for a Montgomery
County Pre—Release Center; and [[further to provide]] for
the purpose of providing for construction, renovation,
improvement and equipping of said Pre—Release Center.
Upon receiving from the Board of Public Works a
certification of such suitable evidence on or before June
1, 1977, the Treasurer of the State is hereby authorized.
empowered and directed to proceed to spend the proceeds
of said loan in accordance with the other provisions of
this Act. If such satisfactory evidence of the raising
of at least an equal and matching fund for this project
is not presented to the Board of Public Works on or
before June 1. 1977. no funds under the provisions of
this Act shall thereafter be paid over to or expended for
the purpose of providing a State grant to assist in the
acquisition of land and/or facilities for a Montgomery
County Pre—Release center; and [[further to provide]] for
the purpose of providing for construction, renovation,
improvement and equipping of said Pre—Release Center.

SECTION [[7]] 8. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That

until all of the interest on and principal of any bonds

issued under this Act shall have been paid in full, there

is hereby levied and imposed an annual State tax on each