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any public purpose and the said County Commissioners are
further authorized and empowered to erect buildings thereon
for any public use.

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

Approved April 16, 1947.

CHAPTER 391.
(House Bill 564)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Sections
32, 33 and 35 of Article 88A of the Annotated Code of
Maryland (1939 Edition), title "State Department of
Public Welfare", sub-title "Volunteer Firemen", relating to
disabilities or injuries received while performing duties nec-
essary for operation and maintenance of fire companies.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Sections 32, 33 and 35 of Article 88A of the Anno-
tated Code of Maryland (1939 Edition), title "State Depart-
ment of Public Welfare", sub-title "Volunteer Firemen", he
and they are hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amend-
ments, to read as follows:

32. Whenever any volunteer firemen in good standing of an
incorporated volunteer fire company in the State of Mary-
land, shall be temporarily or permanently disabled as a direct
result from active participation in fighting a fire or while
going to or from a fire, or performing any other duties neces-
sary to the operation or maintenance of the fire company, the
said fireman shall lay his case before the Board of Trustees
of the Maryland State Firemen's Association, supported in all
cases by the recommendation of the fire company of which he
is a member, and the Board of Trustees aforesaid shall pro-
ceed to consider the same, and if the facts are found as above
stated, the name of the firemen shall be placed on a list to be
kept by the Secretary of the Maryland State Firemen's Asso-
ciation, to be known as "Disabled Firemen's List", and every
person so placed on said list shall be entitled to receive a pen-
sion from the Maryland Firemen's Association in a sum, the
amount of which shall be decided upon by the Board of Trus-
tees of the Maryland State Firemen's Association and to be
paid out of its treasury at such times and in such instalments