WM. PRESTON LANE, JR., GOVERNOR. 505

TIME

1328A. For the period of each year from two A. M. on the
last Sunday in April until two A. M. of the last Sunday in
September, the County Commissioners of Prince George's
County are authorized and empowered to fix, by ordinance
or resolution, the official time of said county at one hour in
advance of the standard time of the seventy-fifth meridian,
which advance in said standard time is commonly called
"Eastern Daylight Saving Time". If the County Commis-
sioners so advance the official time of said county, all courts,
public offices, legal and official proceedings, insofar as the
same are subject to or under the control of said County
Commissioners, shall be regulated thereby, and all time shown
by the public clocks shall agree therewith.

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 316.
(House Bill 797)

AN ACT to add a new section to Montgomery County Code
(1939 Edition), title "Montgomery County", to be under
a new sub-title "Time" said new section to be known as
Section 1130D, and to follow immediately after Section
1130C as said Section 1130C was added by Chapter 941
of the Acts of 1945, authorizing the County Commissioners
to establish daylight-saving time as the official time in
Montgomery County.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Nary-
land, That a new section be and it is hereby added to Mont-
gomery County Code (1939 Edition), title "Montgomery
County", to be under a new sub-title "Time", said new section
to be known as Section 1130D, and to follow immediately
after Section 1130C as said Section 1130C was added by Chap-
ter 941 of the Acts of 1945, and to read as follows: