The board of county commissioners of any county having a population of more than thirty thousand (30,000) and less than forty thousand (40,000) and an assessed tangible valuation of more than eighty million dollars ($80,000,000) and less than one hundred million dollars ($100,000,000) and which county has levied taxes to provide a fund for a home for the aged under the provisions of Kan. Stat. Ann. §§ 19-2106 to 19-2116, both sections inclusive; such county is hereby authorized, pending the actual collection and receipt of such proceeds, to issue warrants of said county in an amount not exceeding the amount to be realized by such tax levy and not exceeding the amount necessary for such improvements. Such warrants shall be paid from the proceeds of the special levy authorized by said sections.