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the amount charged children attending the public schools
for the same kind of transportation.

SEC. 2. 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 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 76.
(House Bill 44)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section
241A of Article 9 of the Code of Public Local Laws of
Maryland (1930 Edition), title "Charles County, " sub-
title "Schools, " as said section was enacted by Chapter 918
of the Acts of 1947, to eliminate the provision which pro-
hibits the Board of Education of Charles County from
changing the routes of school buses in order to transport
children to and from schools not receiving State aid.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 241A of Article 9 of the Code of Public
Local Laws of Maryland (1930 Edition), title "Charles
County, " sub-title "Schools, " as said section was enacted by
Chapter 918 of the Acts of 1947, be and it is hereby repealed
and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

241A. All children who attend parochial schools in Charles
County, which schools do not receive State aid, and who
reside on or along or near to the public highways of Charles
County, on which there is now or hereafter operated a public
school bus or conveyance provided by the Board of Educa-
tion of Charles County for transporting children to and from
the public schools of Charles County, shall be entitled to
transportation on the said buses or conveyances, subject to
the conditions hereinafter set forth, from a point on the said
public highways nearest or most accessible to their respective
homes to a point on said public highways nearest or most
accessible to their respective schools. Such transportation
may be provided by the Board of Education, as aforesaid,
for all the children attending schools described herein, upon
the same terms and conditions as now or as may be hereafter
established by the Board of Education of Charles County
for children attending public schools.