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The applicant for a license to sell wine, beer or other spirituous
or fermented beverages, containing less than 8% of alcohol by
volume, shall pay to the Clerk of the Circuit Court upon the
issuing of such license the sum of twenty-five dollars ($25. 00)
for one year or such pro rata part of said sum for a shorter
period. All the funds received by the Clerk of the Circuit
Court under the provisions of this section, less the Clerk's
fee and any refunds, shall be paid over by him to the County
Commissioners of St. Mary's County. Provided, however,
that the license fees received from licensees in Leonardtown
shall be paid to the Commissioners of Leonardtown to be used
for general corporate purposes. The funds thus received by
County Commissioners prior to May 1, 1937, not exceeding
seven thousand dollars ($7, 000. 00) in any scholastic year,
shall be used for the transport tion to and from school of
children attending any school in St. Mary's County not re-
ceiving State Aid. Any amount in excess of seven thousand
dollars ($7, 000. 00) so received by the County Commissioners
shall be used by them in reducing the tax required to be levied
for the public schools of said County by the General State
Law. The said County Commissioners shall include in their
annual statement of expenses an itemized statement of the
expenditures made under the provisions of this section.

Any person violating any of the provisions of this section
shall be punished by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars
($500. 00).

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, the same shall take effect from the date of
its passage.

Approved May 18, 1937.

CHAPTER 550.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Section 48
of Article 39 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1935
Supplement), title "Fish and Fisheries", sub-title "Nets
and Seines", to regulate the use of nets in the Patuxent
River.
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