PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, GOVERNOR. 283

dates for racing in Harford county for the current year, but
such dates so awarded shall not exceed sixty days in the aggre-
gate, and the decision of the commission on the award of all
such dates shall be final. No one corporation or association
shall receive more than thirty racing days in any one year,
divided into not more than two meetings and no dates shall be
awarded for any meeting to be held during the months of
December, January, February and March of any year, nor
shrill more than one meeting be held on any one day of the year
in Harford county.

7. Each applicant desiring to hold races on the day or days
awarded by the commission shall before the issuance of any
license, and on or before the first day of May following the
allotment of such days, pay to the said commission a license fee
as follows: $10.00 for each day of any meeting for the con
duet of running races, up to seven days, and $200.00 a day for
each additional day thereof, and $10.00 for each day of any
meeting for trotting or pacing horses. And the said applicant,
excepting only regularly incorporated agricultural associations
holding not more than two meetings in one year of not more
than seven days duration, in addition to the license fee paid ab
aforesaid to said racing commission, shall pay to the treasurer
of Harford county, Maryland, five per cent, of the gate receipts
of any and all such authorized meetings, to be used and expended
by the County Commissioners of Harford County aforesaid in-
the construction and maintenance of the public roads in Har
ford county, State of Maryland.

Any race meeting whereat four or more running races for
horses shall be held on or advertised for one day shall be deemed
to be a meeting for the conduct of running races under the
terms thereof.

8. Upon the award of days to any applicant and upon pay-
ment of the license fee as above prescribed the commission shall
issue a license for the holding of the meeting during the days
awarded to such applicant and for which the license fee shall
have been paid, which said license shall be for all purposes in
substitution for that now required by law and shall contain a
condition that all races or race meetings conducted thereunder
shall be subject to all the rules, regulations and conditions from
time to time prescribed by the commission and such license
shall be revocable by the commission for any violation thereof
or whenever the continuance of such license shall be deemed
by the commission not conducive to the interest of legitimate
racing. But if any license is refused or revoked said commis-
sion shall state publicly its reasons for so doing and cause an