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several payrolls, and all insurance carriers, including the State
Accident Fund, in proportion to the aggregate payroll of
employers insured therewith, as a special tax for the main-
tenance of the State Industrial Accident Commission, other
than for conducting and administering the State Accident
Fund, for the calendar year ending December thirty-first, nine-
teen hundred and seventeen, and for each calendar year there-
after; provided, however, that the total amount to be assessed
against and paid by such insurance carriers and self-insurers
shall not exceed one hundred thousand dollars for any one
year.

Payment of said taxes may be enforced by civil action in
the name of the State of Maryland, and the amounts so as-
sessed and collected by the Commission shall be paid into the
State Treasury to reimburse the State for this portion of the
expense of administering the Workmen's Compensation Law.
And the Commission shall be and is hereby clothed with such
power and authority to examine payrolls and require reports
from employers and insurance carriers as may be reasonable
and necessary to carry out the provisions of this section and
to adopt rules and regulations in regard thereto.

Approved April 5, 1927.

CHAPTER 553.

AN ACT to add a new section to Article 39 of the Annotated
Code of Maryland (1924 Edition), title "Fish and Fish-
eries, " sub-title "Patuxent, " to be known as Section 19-A
and to follow immediately after Section 19 of said Article,
prohibiting non-residents of Charles, St. Mary's, Calvert,
Anne Arundel and Prince George's Counties from taking
fish of any description except with hook and line in the
Patuxent River.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That a new section be and the same is hereby added
to Article 39 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1924 Edi-
tion), title "Fish and Fisheries, " sub-title "Patuxent, " to be
known as Section 19-A, to follow immediately after Section 19
of said Article, and to read as follows: