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said bonds, then the County Commissioners of Frederick
County or a majority of said Commissioners shall borrow money
on the credit of the county an amount not exceeding the sum of
$75,000.00, and issue bonds therefor for the purposes as pro-
vided in section 1 of this act.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That the County Commissioners
shall cause to be levied and collected from the assessable prop-
erty in Frederick county an annual tax which shall be sufficient
to pay the interest on said bonds, and to provide a sinking fund
for their redemption at or before maturity; and said tax shall
be collected in like manner as other taxes levied in said county
are collected, and when collected shall be applied to the pay-
ment of interest on said bonds, and to a sinking fund to redeem
said bonds at or before maturity; but should the voters of Fred-
erick county at said election declare against the issuance of said
bonds, then this act is hereby declared null and void.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect
from June 1st, 1912.

Approved April 8, 1912.

CHAPTER 67.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments section 8 of
Article 56 of the Code of Public General Laws of the State
of Maryland, title "License," sub-title "Billiards"

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That section 8 of Article 56 of the Code of Public General
Laws of the State of Maryland, title "License" sub-title "Bill-
iards," be and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted with
amendments, so as to read as follows:

SEC. 8. A license may be granted to any person who may
apply for permission to keep a billiard table, for which license
there shall be paid the sum of ten dollars, and for every addi-
tional billiard table kept by the same person he shall pay a
license of five dollars; provided, that all said additional tables
shall be kept in the same premises; and the word billiard table
shall be construed to include pool tables; and provided further,
that any person who shall keep a pool or billiard table where a
charge is made for playing on the same but the said charge is
returned or is to be returned to the players to be exchanged with
the owner of said table or his agent for money, drinks, cigars or
any other article of merchandise, shall be considered as gam-