RACING COMMISSION. 2541

1920, ch. 273.

6. No person or persons, association or corporation shall thereafter
hold or conduct any meeting within the State of Maryland whereat horse-
racing shall be permitted for any stake, purse or reward, except such per-
son, association or corporation shall be licensed by the Commission as
hereinafter provided.

See art. 27, sec. 247, et seq., and notes.

1920, ch. 273.

7. Any person or persons, association or corporation desiring to con-
duct racing within the State of Maryland during any calendar year, shall
apply to the Maryland Racing Commission for a license so to do. Such
application shall be filed with the Secretary of the Commission on or
before a day to be fixed by the Commission. Such application shall specify
the days on which such racing is desired to be conducted or held, and
such application shall be in such form and supply such data and informa-
tion as the said Maryland Racing Commission shall prescribe. Said
Racing Commission shall, as soon as practicable during nineteen hundred
and twenty (1920), and on or before the first day of March of each year
thereafter, award all dates for racing in the State of Maryland within
the current year, but the said dates so awarded shall not exceed One
Hundred days in the aggregate, and the decision of the Commission on
the award of all such dates shall be final. The Commission shall have the
power to reject any application for a license for any cause which it may
deem sufficient and the action of the Commission shall be final. No one
person, corporation or association shall be given a license to conduct racing
for more than thirty days in one year, and no person, corporation or
association, shall be licensed to hold more than two meetings in any one
year, nor shall more than two meetings for racing with an aggregate of
Thirty days be held in any one year on any one track within the State of
Maryland; provided, however, that the Commission shall issue no license
nor award any dates for racing on any tracks or places for holding races
in Maryland, unless on such tracks or places for holding races, races have
been run or held at least once in every year for a period of three con-
secutive years immediately prior to the passage of this "Act. The intent
and purpose of this proviso being that no new or additional tracks or
places for holding races shall be licensed or awarded dates for holding or
conducting races.

1920, ch. 273.

8. Each applicant desiring to hold races on the days or day awarded
by the Commission shall, before the issuance of any license therefor, pay
to the said Commission a license fee of six thousand ($6,000) dollars
for each day of any meeting for the conduct of races so licensed. Pro-
vided, however, that nothing in this Article shall be construed to repeal
the provisions of Chapter 264 of the Acts of 1918, except that the Mary-
land Racing Commission herein created shall be substituted for the Racing
Commission of Baltimore County mentioned in said Chapter 264 of the