1460 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 582

1922, reducing the payment of the 10% license fee Posts
of The American Legion, Posts of Veterans of Foreign Wars
and Organizations of the National Guard of Maryland.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 116F of Article 56 of the Annotated Code
of Maryland, title "Licenses, " sub-title "Boxing, Sparring and
Wrestling, " as said section was amended by Chapter 385 of the
Acts of 1922, be and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted
with amendments to read as follows:

116F. Every person, club, corporation or association which
may hold or exercise any of the privileges conferred by this
Act shall, within twenty-four hours after the determination of
every contest, furnish to the Commission a written report,
under oath, showing the exact number of tickets sold for such
contest and the amount of the gross proceeds thereof, and such
other matters as the Commission may prescribe, and shall also
within the said time pay to the said Commission a license fee
of ten per centum (10%) of its total gross receipts from the
sale of tickets of admission to such boxing or sparring or wrest-
ling match, contest or exhibition, which license fees shall be
paid to said Commission; provided that the Amateur Athletic
Union and the Young Men's Christian Association shall be
exempted from payment of any license fee in connection with
any amateur boxing, sparring or wrestling matches held under
the auspices or sanction of either of the said organizations, but
shall be subject to all the other provisions of this sub-title, and
to such rules and regulations as have been or shall be adopted by
the said Commission; and provided further that in Allegany
County duly constituted posts of The Veterans of Foreign Wars
or of the American Legion and every organization of the Mary-
land National (or State) Guard may conduct boxing, sparring
or wrestling match, contest or exhibition held under the auspi-
ces or sanction of any of said posts or organizations, but shall be
subject to pay to the said Commission a license fee of five per
cent, of its total gross receipts from the sale of tickets of ad-
mission to such boxing, sparring or wrestling match, contest or
exhibition, and shall also be subject to all the other provisions
of this sub-title, and to such reasonable rules and regulations
as have been or shall he adopted by the said Commission. And
said Commission shall on the first day of December in each
and every year pay said fees, after deducting therefrom the
expenses of the Commission, including the salaries of its mem-
bers and secretary and such other expenses as may be payable
out of said fees, to the Treasurer of the State.