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fighting apparatus. Each of the said seven volunteer fire com-
panies shall also file with the County Commissioners a state-
ment of the number of fires to which their respective Compa-
nies were called during the previous year, the estimated value
of the property in which the fires occurred and the estimated
loss to the same by reason of any fire.

141B. The County Commissioners shall pay out of the
taxes collected in Cecil County, in each and every year, to each
of the said seven volunteer fire companies the sum of Twelve
Hundred Dollars ($1,200.00), at stated periods during the
current year and each of the said seven volunteer companies
are hereby required to file at the end of the current year with
the County Commissioners a full and fair statement of how
the said sums of money so paid to each of them shall have been
expended, provided, however, that the said County Commis-
sioners shall make no payment to any fire company organized
after June 1, 1947, unless such company shall apply to said
County Commissioners and receive the approval of said Com-
missioners for its organization.

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

Approved April 16, 1947.

CHAPTER 462.
(House Bill 768)

AN ACT to add a new section to Article 2 of the Code of
Public Local Laws of Maryland (1930 Edition), title "Anne
Arundel County", sub-title "Police Department", said new
section to be known as Section 406BC and to follow imme-
diately after Section 406BB of said Article, relating to the
establishment of a Detective Bureau within the Anne Arun-
del County Police Department.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That a new section be and it is hereby added to Article 2
of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland (1930 Edition),
title "Anne Arundel County", sub-title "Police Department",
said new section to be known as Section 406BC and to follow
immediately after Section 406BB of said Article, and to read
as follows: