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of plants and industries already located in Allegany County
shall be granted for a longer period than one year, but
any such exemption or extension may at the discretion of
said Commissioners be renewed from year to year. Before
granting any extension beyond said ten year period includ-
ing all exemptions and extensions from year to year there-
after, said Commissioners shall require from the factory,
industry, establishment or plant making application there-
for, such financial papers and statements as said Commis-
sioners believe to be necessary to enable them to judge of
the merits of said application, and any such papers or
statements filed with the said Commissioners as part of an
application for a renewal of an exemption from taxes
shall be retained by said Commissioners and made open
and available for public inspection at any reasonable time.

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

Approved April 25, 1947.

CHAPTER 618.
(Senate Bill 210)

AN ACT to propose an amendment to Section 1 of Article
13, title "New Counties", of the State Constitution, relat-
ing to changes in the boundaries of Baltimore City and
of the Counties and to provide for the submission of
said amendment to the qualified voters of this State for
adoption or rejection.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland
(three-fifths of all the members elected to each of the two
House concurring), That Section 1 of Article 13, title
"New Counties", of the State Constitution, be and the same
is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to
read as follows:

Section 1. The General Assembly may provide, by Law,
for organizing new Counties, locating and removing county
seats, and changing county lines; but no new county shall
be organized without the consent of the majority of the
legal voters residing within the limits proposed to be
formed into said new county; and whenever a new county
shall be proposed to be formed out of portions of two or