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and 18 of said Article, as now constituted, shall be recodi-
fied, transferred and renumbered as Sections 19, 20 and 21
of said Article, respectively, to follow immediately after
Section 18 as herein recodified, transferred and numbered.

Any reference in this Article to the number of any
Section as it has heretofore existed shall be deemed, taken
and construed as a reference to the same Section as recodi-
fied, transferred and renumbered by this Act.

The redocification, transfer and renumbering of the
several Sections in Article 78B, as provided by this Act,
shall not change, impair or affect the existence, tenor, val-
idity and application of said Sections or any of them or
of any other Section except as specifically herein provided.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That a new Section
be, and it is hereby added to Article 78B of the Annotated
Code of Maryland (1939 Ed.), title "Racing Commission",
to follow immediately after Section 15, as enacted by
Chapter 3 of the Acts of the Special Session of the General
Assembly of 1946, to be known as Section 16, said new
Section to read as follows:

16. In addition to the licensing of racing as herein-
before provided, the Commission is authorized in its dis-
cretion to issue licenses for the holding of trotting and
pacing meetings at which there may be offered stakes,
purses or awards, and the Commission shall have super-
visory powers over such meetings and those licensed in
the same manner and to the same extent, where not in-
appropriate, as it has by virtue of the provisions of this
Article over those licensed under the provisions of Sections
7 and 14 of this Article, provided, however, that under this
section not more than one license with pari-mutuel betting
privilege shall be issued in any County or in Baltimore
City and that no such license shall be issued hereafter in
Carroll, Dorchester, Frederick, Montgomery or Wicomico
Counties.

Each licensee licensed under the provisions of this Sec-
tion shall at its option be permitted to avail itself of the
pari-mutuel betting privileges heretofore granted in this
Article, retaining for its own use 6% of the money wagered
together with breakage computed to ten cents (10c), and
shall pay to the Racing Commission for the use of the
State within five days after the close of the meeting held
during the year 1947, and each calendar year thereafter,
an annual tax at the rate of four percent (4%) on money