WM. PRESTON LANE, JR., GOVERNOR. 1545

"Chapter 15. Public Libraries", as said section was
enacted by Chapter 980 of the Acts of 1945, providing
that the County Coumissioners of Talbot County and
any public library of said county shall be entitled to the
benefits of said Act but shall be exempt from the super-
vision of the State Superintendent of Schools and the
Division of Library Extension.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 181 of Article 77 of the Annotated Code of
Maryland (1939 Edition), title "Public Education", sub-
title "Chapter 15. Public Libraries", as said section was
enacted by Chapter 980 of the Acts of 1945, be and it is
hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read
as follows:

181. The Mayor and City Council of Baltimore shall
be entitled to benefits under Section 167 (b) of this Article
for the purchase of books for the Enoch Pratt Free
Library in the same manner and to the same extent as
any county having a population of over 200,000 persons,
provided it meets the financial standard as provided in
Section 167, but the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore
and the Enoch Pratt Free Library, and the County Com-
missioners of Washington County and the Washington
County Free Library, and the County Commissioners of
Talbot County and any public library of said county, and
the funds allotted to either of them hereunder, shall be
exempt from the supervision of the State Superintendent
of Schools and the Division of Library Extension; and the
qualifications of the employees of the Enoch Pratt Free
Library shall be those which may be established by the
Trustees of said Library; and the Enoch Pratt Free
Library shall be the agency for the expenditure and
administration of that portion of funds or materials
received from the Federal Government which may be
allocated to the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore by
the State Board of Education; and the Enoch Pratt Free
Library shall be exempt from the provisions of Sections
170 to 178, inclusive, of this Article.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall
take effect June 1, 1947.

Approved April 25, 1947.