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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 905

shall be reduced by the amount specified in this Act for
abandoned funds. 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.

(6)    No portion of the proceeds of the loan or any of
the matching funds may be used for the furtherance of
sectarian religious instruction, or in connection with the
design, acquisition, or construction of any building used or
to be used as a place of sectarian religious worship or used
or to be used as a place for sectarian religious
instruction, or in connection with any part of any program
or department of divinity for any religious denomination.

Upon the request of the Board of Public Works, the

Benedictine___School for Exceptional Children, Inc., shall

submit evidence satisfactory to the Board that none of the
proceeds of this loan or any of the matching funds have been
or are being used for a purpose prohibited by this Act.

(7)    There is hereby levied and imposed an annual
State tax on all assessable property in the State in rate
and amount sufficient to pay the principal of and interest
on the bonds as and when due and until paid in full, such
principal to be discharged within fifteen years of the date
of issue of the bonds.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect June 1, 1978.

Approved May 29, 1978.

CHAPTER 906

(House Bill 875)

AN ACT concerning

Somerset County - Merit System Transfer of
County Employees

FOR the purpose of transferring into the merit system
certain Somerset County employees who use State—owned

mosquito control equipment ;__and generally relating

thereto.

BY adding to

Article 64A - Merit System
Section 9Q

Annotated Code of Maryland
(1972 Replacement Volume and 1977 Supplement)