J. MILLARD TAWES, Governor                    2113

by the State, said date of final acceptance to be certified in writing
to the Board of Public Works by the Department of Public Im-
provements.

Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That any brick structures
authorized to be paid for from the proceeds of the sale of the
Certificates of Indebtedness authorized by this Act shall be of
face brick, with cinder block or slag block back-up, and shall not
have a brick back-up, and that any furniture, fixtures and/or equip-
ment authorized to be paid for from the sales of the Certificates of
Indebtedness authorized by this Act shall be, where possible, manu-
factured or produced by the State Use Industries operated by the
Department of Correction, in accordance with the provisions of
Section 680 of Article 27, Annotated Code of Maryland (1957
Edition).

Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That, except as otherwise
provided in this Act, no department, board, commission, agency or
institution specified or named in this Act shall begin any work
with funds secured pursuant to the provisions of this Act unless
satisfactory assurances are made to the Board of Public Works
that the work described in the individual items in this Act can be
completed with the Funds specified for each such item respectively.

Sec. 9. And be it further enacted, That if any projects listed in
Section 5 of this Act shall not have been contracted for within two
(2) years from the effective date of this Act, then such project
shall be deemed to have been abandoned. If the total loan authorized
herein shall have been issued within two (2) years from the
effective date of this Act, then the amount specified herein for said
abandoned project shall be transferred to the Annuity Bond Fund
and shall be applied to the debt service requirements of the State.
If, however, the total loan authorized herein shall not have been
issued within two (2) years from the effective date of this Act,
then the total issuable Certificates of Indebtedness authorized herein
shall be reduced by the amount specified herein for said abandoned
project.

Sec. 10. And be it further enacted, That until all of the interest
on and principal of any certificates issued under this Act have
been paid in full, there is hereby levied and imposed an annual
State tax on each $100 of assessable property at the rate to be
determined in the following manner: on or before December 1,
1963, and on or before December 1 in each calendar year thereafter,
the Board of Public Works shall certify to the governing bodies of
each of the Counties and Baltimore City the rate of State tax on
each $100 of assessable property necessary to produce revenue to
meet all interest and principal which will be payable to the close
of the next ensuing calendar year on all certificates theretofore
issued or theretofore authorized by resolution of the Board of
Public Works to be issued and the governing bodies of each of the
Counties and Baltimore City shall forthwith levy and collect such
tax at such rate; provided, THE COST OF PAYING THE PRIN-
CIPAL AND INTEREST ON BONDS ISSUED TO PAY the cost of
capital improvements for the Department of Maryland State Police as