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SECTION 61. The County Commissioners of Dorchester
County, on the first day of October, in each and every year,
after the passage of this Act, shall pay to the Commissioners
of Cambridge, to be used and applied by the said Commission-
ers of Cambridge for the corporate uses of the said town of
Cambridge the sum of four thousand five hundred dollars
($4,500.00) out of the amount that shall be collected by the
County Treasurer as county taxes from the taxable property
of, in and payable from the Seventh or Cambridge Election
District of Dorchester County, aforesaid, the first of said
payments to be made on the first day of October, 1920, and
the same amount on the first day of each succeeding first day
of October thereafter in each and every year; provided, how-
ever, that this Act shall not affect or apply to the payment
of any sum or sums of money due at the time of the passage
of this Act from the County Commissioners of Dorchester
County to the Commissioners of Cambridge, or that may have
been levied by the said County Commissioners for the use of
the Commissioners of Cambridge in any year preceding the
passage of this Act, and provided further, that any and all
payments heretofore made by the County Commissioners of
Cambridge be and the same are hereby ratified and confirmed.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That in order that this
Act may take effect before the first day of May, 1920, the time
fixed by law for the making of the budget for the fiscal year
of Dorchester County, for the year 1920, that this Act is here-
by declared to be an emergency law and necessary for the im-
mediate preservation of the public safety; and being passed
upon 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 March 26, 1920.

CHAPTER 99.

AN ACT to repeal Section 69, of Chapter 395 of the Acts of
the General Assembly of Maryland, 1904, as repealed and
re-enacted by implication by Section 56, of Chapter 694,
of the Acts of 1912, and Section 69 of Chapter 680 of the