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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 627

and matching fund amount will be provided. Upon receiving
from the Board of Public Works a certification that such
suitable evidence has been received, the proper officers of
the State shall disburse the proceeds of the loan to the
County Commissioners of Caroline County as a State grant,
for expenditure in accordance with the provisions of this
Act. Proceeds of this loan that cannot be expended in
accordance with this Act shall be transferred to the Annuity
Bond Fund and applied to the debt service requirements of
the State.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That Chapter 897
of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1978 and Chapter 815
of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1977 be and they are
hereby repealed.

SECTION 3. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect June 1, 1979.

Approved May 29, 1979.

CHAPTER 628

(House Bill 1329)

AN ACT concerning

Caroline County — Jail Bonds

FOR the purpose of authorizing and empowering the County
Commissioners of Caroline County, from time to time, to
borrow not more than Six Hundred Fifty Thousand Dollars
($650,000) and to effect such borrowing by the issuance
and sale at public or private sale of its general
obligation bonds in like par amount in order to finance
the costs of alteration, enlargement, extension,
expansion, improvement, reconstruction, rehabilitation,
renovation, and repair of the Caroline County Jail,
including the costs of acquisition and development of
property rights, acquisition and installation of
furnishings and equipment and any related
architectural, financial, legal, planning and
engineering services, together with the costs of
issuance, sale, delivery of the bonds; empowering the
County to fix and determine, by resolution, the form,
tenor, interest rate or rates or method of determining
the same, terms, conditions, maturities and all other
details incident to the issuance and sale of the bonds;
empowering the County to issue refunding bonds for the
purchase or redemption of bonds in advance of maturity;
empowering and directing the County to levy, impose and