WM. PRESTON LANE, JR., GOVERNOR. 93

Records of Anne Arundel County in Liber G. W. No. 26,
folio 128 was conveyed by Edwin A. Seidewitz, et al., to the
State of Maryland.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That said Emergency
Hospital Association of Annapolis pay to the Board of Pub-
lic Works, as consideration for the conveyance aforesaid,
the sum of Five Dollars.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the Board of Pub-
lic Works shall execute the aforesaid deed agreeably to the
Law of this State and in accordance with a re-survey made
in November, 1945 by J. R. McCrone, Jr., Registered Pro-
fessional Engineer and Land Surveyor.

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 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 32.
(Senate Bill 36)

AN ACT to authorize the County Commissioners of St. Mary's
County to designate, by Resolution, the type of coin-
operated machines upon which a gross receipts tax has been
imposed by said County Commissioners under the provisions
of Chapter 601 of 1947 and authorizing said County Com-
missioners, by Resolution, to impose a license fee upon such
machines, and providing for a referendum thereon.

WHEREAS, the County Commissioners of St. Mary's County,
Maryland, by Resolution passed in 1947 under the provisions
of Chapter 601 of the Acts of 1947, imposed a gross receipts
tax of five per cent (5%) upon all coin-operated machines
doing business in said County, and which tax was estimated
to yield a net revenue of Fifty Thousand Dollars ($50, 000);
and

WHEREAS, the legality of the type of machines on which
said gross receipts tax was imposed has been questioned and
unless clarified, the amount of revenue collected by said