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the second Saturday of February next succeeding the year for
which said taxes shall be due.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this act shall take
effect from the first day of June, 'Nineteen Hundred and
Eighteen.

Approved April 10th, 1918.

CHAPTER 148.

AN ACT to amend Chapter 308 of the Acts of the General
Assembly of Maryland, passed at the Session of 1906, entitled
"An Act to Create the Maryland Tuberculosis Sanatorium
and making appropriations for the erection and mainte-
nance of the same, " (as amended by Chapter 328 of the Acts
of the General Assembly of Maryland, passed at the Session
of 1908, and as further amended by Chapter 497 of the Acts
of the General Assembly of Maryland, passed at the session
of 1916), by adding a new section thereto, to follow imme-
diately after Section 1, and to be known as Section 1A, en-
larging the powers and duties of said Maryland Tuberculosis
Sanatorium, so as to provide and maintain sanatoria for col-
ored tubercular patients.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Chapter 308 of the Acts of the General Assembly
of Maryland, Session of 1906, entitled "An act to Create the
Maryland Tuberculosis Sanatorium, and Making Appropria-
tions for the Erection and Maintenance of the Same, " (as
amended by Chapter 328 of the Acts of 1908 and Chapter 497
of the Acts of 1916), be and the same is hereby amended by
adding a new section thereto, to follow immediately after Sec-
tion 1, and to be known as Section 1A, to read as follows:

1A. In addition to all the powers and duties heretofore
given and imposed by law to and upon the Maryland Tuber-
culosis Sanatorium, and the Board of Managers in control there-
of, the said Board of Managers for and in the name of the
Maryland Tuberculosis Sanatorium, shall make suitable and
appropriate provision for the establishment and maintenance,
within this State, of proper facilities for the care and treatment
of colored persons, subject to the rules now existing or here-
after adopted by said Board, who are bona fide residents of
the State of Maryland, and suffering from tuberculosis; and