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fitters, restaurant or eating places, shows, soda water foun-
tains, theatres, traders and wholesale dealers in farm ma-
chinery shall be accounted for and paid over as hereinafter
prescribed. The clerk issuing any of the licenses enumerated
herein shall retain as a fee of his office the present per-
centage of license revenues as authorized by law and the
additional issuance fee now allowed and a further three
percent (3%) of license revenues to be paid into the general
fund of the State to defray the expenses of the State License
Bureau. All net proceeds received from the said licenses
remaining after the deductions hereinabove authorized shall
be paid by the said clerks to the incorporated town or city
in which the licensed business or activity is located. Where
the licensed business or activity is not located in an incorpo-
rated town or city, the net proceeds shall be paid to the
county in which the licensed business or activity is located,
provided, however, that the provisions of this section shall
be construed to apply only to licenses issued after June 30,
1947.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That all laws or parts
of laws inconsistent with the provisions of this Act be and
they are hereby repealed to the extent of such inconsistency.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect June 1, 1947.

Approved April 16, 1947.

CHAPTER 488.
(Senate Bill 33)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section
89 of Article 27 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1943
Supplement), title "Crimes and Punishments", sub-title
"Desertion of Wife or Child", as said section was amended
by Chapters 556 and 719 of the Acts of 1945, providing that
payments be made to person or institution having custody
of child, in certain cases.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 89 of Article 27 of the Annotated Code
of Maryland (1943 Supplement), title "Crimes and Punish-
ments", sub-title "Desertion of Wife or Child", as said sec-
tion was amended by Chapters 556 and 719 of the Acts of