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CHAPTER 43.
(House Bill 4)

AN ACT making an emergency appropriation for the pay-
ment of the expenses of the General Assembly of Maryland
for the Extraordinary Session of 1947.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the sum of Twenty-Five Thousand Dollars ($25, -
000. 00), or so much thereof as may be necessary, be and the
same is hereby appropriated as an emergency appropriation
from any funds in the General Surplus Fund Account of
the Treasury of the State for the fiscal year ending June 30,
1948, for the payment of the officers and employees of the
General Assembly of Maryland of the Extraordinary Ses-
sion of 1947 and for the expenses of said Session, including
mileage of the members, printing, binding and miscellaneous
expenses.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Treasurer of
the State shall, upon the warrant of the Comptroller, dis-
burse the said sum of money herein appropriated for the
objects and purposes herein specified, to or upon the order
of the person of persons entitled to receive the same.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That this Act is here-
by declared to be an emergency measure and necessary for
the immediate preservation of the public health and safety
and having been passed by a yea and nay vote, supported by
three-fifths of all of the members elected to each of the two
Houses of the General Assembly of Maryland, the same shall
take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved November 10, 1947.

CHAPTER 44.
(House Bill 5)

AN ACT making an emergency appropriation from surplus to
institutions herein declared to be State-aided institutions
for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1948, and June 30,
1949, and to other State-aided institutions to supplement
the appropriations to such institutions in the Budget for
the fiscal year ending June 30, 1948, and for the fiscal
year ending June 30, 1949, for the hospital care of the
indigent.