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or other employee or attendant in connection with such exhibi-
tion shall not be unlawful because performed on Sunday.

Any such exhibition on Sunday except as hereby authorized
shall be subject to the provisions and penalties of Sections
483 and 485 of Article 27 of the Code of Public General Laws.

Any person, firm or corporation exhibiting motion pictures
under the provisions of this section and failing to donate and
pay said ten per cent (10%) of gross receipts as aforesaid
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof
shall be subject to a fine of not more than One Hundred Dol-
lars ($100. 00) or imprisonment for not more than sixty (60)
days, or both, in the discretion of the Court.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That all laws or parts of
laws, whether Public General or Public Local Laws, inconsis-
tent with the provisions of this Act, and especially Sections
483 and 485 of Article 27 of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1924 Edition), title "Crimes and Punishments, " sub-title
"Sabbath Breaking, " are hereby repealed with respect to the
exhibitions authorized by this Act to the extent of such incon-
sistency.

SEC. 2A. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall
remain effective until January 1, 1939, but no longer unless it
shall receive a majority of the votes cast thereon at the General
Election to be held in November, 1938. There shall be printed
on the ballot to be used at said General Election in November,
1938, in the Fifth Election District of Anne Arundel County
the title of this Act and underneath said title on separate
lines, a square or box to the right of and opposite the words
''Por Motion Pictures on Sunday", and a corresponding square
or box to the right of and opposite the words "Against Motion
Pictures on Sunday", so that the voters shall be able to desig-
nate by a cross mark in the proper square or box his or her
decision for or against said question. If a majority of the
votes cast on said question shall be "For Motion Pictures on
Sunday", then this Act shall continue and remain in force, but
if a majority of the votes cast thereon shall be "Against Motion
Pictures on Sunday", then this Act shall be null and void and
of no effect whatsoever on and after January 1, 1939..

SEC. 3. And Tie it further enacted, That this Act shall be
declared an emergency law and necessary for the immediate
preservation of the public health and safety, and being passed
by a yea and nay vote supported by three-fifths of all the mem-
bers elected to each of the two Houses of the General Assem-
bly the same shall take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 26, 1937.