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shall have the power and authority to borrow such sums
of money as may be necessary to enforce and make effec-
tive its ordinances or resolutions until provision for such
expenses can be provided for in the regular appropriations
of such city or county.

4. The Mayor and City Council of any city and the
County Commissioners of any county may, by ordinance
or resolution, provide that the federal rules and regulations
fixing rents, controls and other conditions applicable to
housing accommodations, including practices relating to
changes in form or quality, within its jurisdiction shall be
continued until such time as the Mayor and City Council
or County Commissioners may be able to provide its own
regulations and controls, but no ordinance or resolution
passed or adopted under the authority of this Article shall
become effective so long as any federal law or regulation
is effective and in force relating to the rents of housing
accommodations in that particular jurisdiction.

5. The provisions of this Article shall continue in effect
only until June 1, 1949, and any ordinance or resolution
adopted under this Article shall cease to have any effect
and shall thereupon become null and void.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That nothing in this
Act shall be construed to take away any power which any
city or county now has under the State Constitution or
any public local or public general law, but the powers
granted by this Act shall be in addition to the powers here-
tofore granted.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That any and all
public general or public local laws, or any part or parts
thereof, inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, be
and they are hereby repealed to the extent of any such
inconsistency.

SEC. 4. The provisions of this Act shall not apply to
Anne Arundel, Calvert, Caroline, Carroll, Cecil, Dorches-
ter, Prince George's, St. Mary's, Talbot, Washington, Wor-
cester, Queen Anne's or Wicomico Counties, or any incor-
porated towns therein.

SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That this Act is
hereby declared to be an emergency law and necessary
for the immediate preservation of the public health and
safety, and being passed by a yea and nay vote, supported