ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 483

mission shall prescribe. Said Racing Commission shall, as
soon as practicable during nineteen hundred and twenty
(1920), and on or before the first day of March of each year
thereafter, award all dates for racing in the State of Maryland
within the current year, but the said dates so awarded shall
not exceed One Hundred days in the aggregate, and the
decision of the Commission on the award of all such dates
shall be final. The Commission shall have the power to reject
any application for a license for any cause which it may
deem sufficient and the action of the Commission shall he
final. No one person, corporation or association shall be
given a license to conduct racing for more than thirty days
in one year, and no person, corporation or association, shall
be licensed to hold more than two meetings in any one year,
nor shall more than two meetings for racing with an aggregate
of Thirty days be held in any one year on any one track
within the State of Maryland; provided, however, that the
Commission shall issue no license nor award any dates for
racing on any tracks or places for holding races in Maryland,
unless on such tracks or places for holding races, races have
been run or held at least once in every year for a period of
three consecutive years immediately prior to the passage of
this Act. The intent and purpose of this proviso being that
no new or additional tracks or places for holding races shall
be licensed or awarded dates for holding or conducting races.

8. Each applicant desiring to hold races on the days or
day awarded by the Commission shall, before the issuance of
any license therefor, pay to the said Commission a license fee
of six thousand ($6,000) dollars for each day of any meeting
for the conduct of races so licensed. Provided, however, that
nothing in this Act shall be construed to repeal the provisions
of Chapter 264 of the Acts of 1918, except that the Maryland
Racing Commission herein created shall be substituted for
the Racing Commission of Baltimore County mentioned in
said Chapter 264 of the Acts of 1918, and shall be paid and
be entitled to receive the license fee prescribed in Section 432
of the Revised Code of the Public Local Laws of Baltimore
County, Edition of 1915, title, "Racing Commission," as said
Section 432 was amended by Chapter 89 of the Acts of 1918;
and on or before the last days of June and December in each
year, the Commission shall pay said license fee so received to