ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 745

212BB and to follow immediately after Section 212B of
said Article, to create a special fund to be designated as
the "One and One-half Cent Lateral, County and Munici-
pal Road Gasoline Tax Fund, " and also to add six new
sections to Article 89B of the Annotated Code of Public
General Laws of Maryland, entitled "State Roads, " as
enacted by Chapter 539 of the Acts of the General As-
sembly of Maryland of 1931, said new sections to be
known as Sections 7A, 7B, 7C, 7D, 7E and 7F, and to
follow immediately after Section 7 of said Article: (1)
to provide for the expenditure and disposition of the
aforesaid "One and One-half Cent Lateral, County and
Municipal Road Gasoline Tax Fund"; (2) to provide for
the rental or purchase by the State Roads Commission
of road equipment owned by the several counties or
municipalities of the State; (3) to provide for the em-
ployment by the State Roads Commission of the road
and street personnel heretofore employed by the County
Commissioners or other duly constituted road or street
authorities, and for the replacement thereof or addition
thereto; (4) to provide for the use by the State Roads
Commission of a portion of the revenue derived from
the two-cent gasoline tax (imposed by Section 212 of
Article 56) and the receipts from the office of the Com-
missioner of Motor Vehicles, for the purposes herein set
forth; (5) to relieve the County Commissioners or other
duly constituted local authorities from the requirements
of existing law with respect to levying a minimum
amount or a minimum rate for road maintenance pur-
poses, and to suspend the operation of all public local
laws making such requirements; (6) to provide that this
Act shall continue and be in force for the period 'June 1,
1933, to September 30, 1935, both inclusive; and X?) to
repeal all laws or parts of laws, whether Public General
Laws or Public Local Laws,, inconsistent herewith, to the

extent of such inconsistency.

SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That a new section be and it is hereby added to
Article 56 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1929 Sup-
plement), title "Licenses, " subtitle "Motor Vehicles, " sub-
heading "Gasoline Tax, " said new section to be known as
Section 212BB, follow immediately after Section 212B

of said Article and to read as follows:

212BB. During the period June, 1, 1933, to September 30,
1935, both inclusive, the receipts from the tax of one and one-