RACING COMMISSION 3003

tion 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 applica-
tion shall be in such form and supply such data and information as the
said Maryland Racing Commission shall prescribe. Said Racing Commis-
sion 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. In addition to the racing days authorized by other
provisions of this Article, the Commission may license for a period not
exceeding ten (10) days in any one year, one race meeting exclusively for
trotting and pacing races for a daily license fee of Fifty Dollars ($50.00),
and there shall also be paid to the Commission, not longer than five (5)
days after the close of a meeting so licensed, one percentum of the whole
amount wagered during said meeting, and all the money so paid, shall be
paid over by the Commission to the Treasurer of the State of Maryland.
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 Commis-
sion shall be final. No one person, corporation or association shall be given
a license to conduct racing for more than thirty (30) 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 consecutive 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.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 8. 1920, ch. 273, sec. 8. 1937, ch. 408, sec. 8.

8. Except in the case of the trotting and pacing meeting, as provided
in Section 7, 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 Commisson a license fee of six thousand ($6,000)
dollars for each day of any meeting for the conduct of races so licensed.
Provided, however, that nothing in this Article shall be construed to
repeal the provisions of Chapter 264 of the Acts of 1918, except that the
Maryland Racing Commission herein created shall be substituted for the
Racing Commission of Baltimore County mentioned in said Chapter 264
of the Acts of 1918, and shall be paid and be entitled to receive the license
fee prescribed in Section 432 of the Revised Code of the Public Local Laws
of Baltimore County, Edition of 1915, title, "Racing Commission", as said
Section 432 was amended by Chapter 89 of the Acts of 1918; and on or
before the last days of June and December in each year, the Commission
shall pay said license fee so received to the Treasurer of Baltimore County
for the uses and purposes described in Section 435 of the Revised Code of