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the Special Assistant Attorney General for the State Roads
Commission shall be paid by the State Roads Commission and
the salary of the Special Attorney for the State Accident
Fund shall be paid by the State Accident Fund, as provided
by the Budget Bill. The Deputy Attorney General and the
Assistant and Special Assistant Attorneys General and the
law clerks shall each perform such duties as the Attorney
General may from time to time assign to them, and the Attor-
ney General is hereby authorized to assign to them and each
of them the performance, subject to his direction and control,
of any of the duties required of him by law.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act is hereby
declared to be an emergency law and necessary for the imme-
diate preservation of the public health and safety, and having
been passed by a yea and nay vote, supported by three-fifths
of all the members elected to each of the two Houses of the
General Assembly of Maryland, the same shall take effect from
the date of its passage.

Approved April 2, 1947.

CHAPTER 302.
(House Bill 389)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 23
of Article 56 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1943
Supplement) title "Licenses", sub-title "Music Boxes", re-
lating to the taxation of music boxes, mechanical player
pianos, graphophones, or other similar mechanical musical
devices played by the insertion of a coin or token.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 23 of Article 56 of the Annotated Code
(1943 Supplement), title "Licenses", sub-title "Music Boxes",
be and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amend-
ments, to read as follows:

23. Every person, firm or corporation keeping, maintaining or
operating for public entertainment within the State of Mary-
land, any music box, mechanical player piano, graphophone, or
other similar mechanical musical device, except an amplifier,
played by the insertion of a coin or token, shall obtain an
annual State-wide license therefor from the Clerk of the
Circuit Court of any County, or the Clerk of the Court