112 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 45

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That this Act is hereby
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 45.
(House Bill 6)

AN ACT making an emergency appropriation to the Board
of Public Works to be used by said Board as part of the
General Emergency Fund and in supplementing appropria-
tion made in the budget for the fiscal year ending June
30, 1948, to the State Department of Public Welfare.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the sum of Five Hundred Thousand Dollars
($500, 000), or so much thereof as may be necessary, be
and the same is hereby appropriated, from any funds in the
General Surplus Fund Account of the Treasury of the State
on January 1, 1948, as an emergency appropriation to the
Board of Public Works, to be used by the Board for the
purposes and in the manner established by Item No. 1 of
Miscellaneous Appropriations No. 5 of the Budget for the
fiscal years 1948 and 1949 (Chapter 514 of the Acts of 1947),
said Item being found on Page 1229 of the published volume
of the Laws of Maryland of 1947. It is hereby directed
that said purposes shall include the use by the Board of
Public Works of so much of the amount hereby appropriated
as in the discretion of the said Board may be proper and
necessary for supplementing appropriations made in the said
Budget for the fiscal year 1948 to the State Department of
Public Welfare for old age assistance, aid to dependent
children, public assistance to the needy blind and general
public assistance, with such allocations among these groups
as the Board may determine.

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 or persons entitled to receive the same.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That this Act is
hereby declared to be an emergency measure and necessary