HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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(2)   The actual cash proceeds of the sale of the bonds
shall be paid to the Treasurer and shall be first applied to
the payment of the expenses of issuing and delivering the
bonds unless funds for this purpose are otherwise provided
and thereafter shall be credited on the books of the State
Comptroller and expended, upon approval by the Board of
Public Works, for the following public purposes, including
any applicable architects' and engineers' fees: to assist in
the construction and equipping of a Charles County Jail.

(3)  Prior to the payment of any funds under the
provisions of this Act for the purposes set forth in Section
1.(2) above, Charles County shall provide at least an equal
and matching fund of [$1,750,000] $2,800,000 for this
project. The County Commissioners of Charles County shall
have until June 1, [1979] 1982 to present evidence
satisfactory to the Board of Public Works that the fund will
be provided. Upon receiving from the Board of Public Works
on or before June 1, [1979] 1982 a certification of suitable
evidence, the Treasurer of the State shall spend the
proceeds of the loan in accordance with the provisions of
this Act. If 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
[1979] 1982, the proceeds of the loan shall be transferred
to the Annuity Bond Fund and applied to the debt service
requirements of the State.

(4)   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.

(5)  This Act shall take effect June 1, [1972] 1977.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect June 1, 1980.

Approved May 27, 1980.

CHAPTER 697

(Senate Bill 160)

AN ACT concerning

Juvenile Causes

FOR the purpose of providing that a child may not be
committed to the custody of the Department of Health