WM. PRESTON LANE, JR., GOVERNOR. 1023

Commission have become or are likely to become invalid
or insufficient, to demand and require such member of
said Commission forthwith to renew his bond to the State
of Maryland, with security or securities to be approved
by the Governor, in the penalty and according to the form
prescribed in this section. Any member of said Commis-
sion who shall fail to take oath and give bond with security
or securities aforesaid within thirty days of the date of
his appointment, or who shall fail to renew his bond with
security or securities aforesaid within thirty days after
the same shall have been demanded and required by the
Governor, shall be deemed to be guilty of neglect of duty
and shall be removable as heretofore provided. The cost
of any bond given by any member of said Commission
under this Section shall be taken to be a part of the neces-
sary expenses of said Commission and shall be payable
as hereinafter provided.

7. Any person or persons, association or corporation,
desiring to conduct racing within the State of Maryland
during any calendar year, shall apply to the Maryland Rac-
ing Commission for a license so to do. Such application
shall be filed with the Secretary of the Commission on or
before a day to be fixed by the Commission. Such applica-
tion shall specify the days on which such racing is desired
to be conducted or held, and such application shall be in
such form and supply such data and information as the
said Maryland Racing Commission shall prescribe. Said
Racing Commission shall, as soon as practicable during
nineteen hundred and forty-three (1943) 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 cur-
rent 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. 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 Commission shall be final.
No one person, corporation or association shall be given a
license to conduct racing for more than fifty (50) days in
one year, nor shall more than an aggregate of fifty (50)
days racing be held in any one year on any one track
within the State of Maryland. The said Racing Commis-
sion may, at any time or times, in its discretion, authorize
any person, corporation or association to transfer its
racing meet or meetings from its own track, or place for
holding races, to the track, or place for holding races, of
any other person, corporation or association now conduct-