MARVIN MANDEL, Governor                             1543

It shall examine and analyze free of cost, public and
private water supplies, milk and such other foods,
drinks, confectionery, drugs, spices and condiments as
the Board shall direct[; it]. IN ORDER TO PERFORM THESE
AND RELATED FUNCTIONS, THE BOARD shall establish and
maintain [a properly equipped public health laboratory to
perform these and related functions, and the] PROPERLY
EQUIPPED PUBLIC HEALTH AND CLINICAL LABORATORIES IN
CAMBRIDGE, EASTON, [[ELKTON,]] ANNAPOLIS, CHEVERLY,
FREDERICK, ROCKVILLE, AND SALISBURY; AND THE BOARD MAY
ESTABLISH AND MAINTAIN PROPERLY EQUIPPED PUBLIC HEALTH
AND CLINICAL LABORATORIES IN OTHER AREAS AS IT DEEMS
NECESSARY. THE services of said [laboratory] LABORATORIES
shall be free to all local boards of health and to all
practicing physicians of the State for inquiries
concerning infectious and contagious diseases and such
other matters as the said Board may from time to time
direct.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1976.

Approved May 17, 1976.

CHAPTER 576

(Senate Bill 377)

AN ACT concerning

Creation of a State Debt — Western Maryland College

FOR the purpose of authorizing the creation of a State
Debt in the amount of $500,000, the proceeds to be

used, subject to certain restrictions, for the

renovation and improvement of academic buildings at
Western Maryland College; subject to the requirement
that Western Maryland College shall have obtained
from other public or private sources a sum up to
$500,000 as an equal and matching fund for the same
purpose; and providing generally for the issue and
sale of bonds evidencing such loan.

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That:

(1) The Board of Public Works may borrow money and
incur indebtedness on behalf of the State of Maryland
through a State loan to be known as the Western Maryland
College Loan of 1976 in the aggregate principal amount of
$500,000. This loan shall be evidenced by the issuance
and sale of State general obligation bonds authorized by