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Section 3. Be it further enacted, That the County Commis-
sioners of Allegany County be and the same are hereby author-
ized, directed and empowered to levy the said sum of Twenty-
three Hundred ($2, 300. 00) Dollars annually for the above
purpose on the assessable property of said Allegany County.
Before the County Commissioners shall be required to pay the
aforesaid sums of money to the respective fire companies, the
said commissioners shall have the power to require the officers
of said fire companies to appear before them and show to the
satisfaction of said commissioners that any sums of money paid
by the said Commissioners to the said fire companies under this
Act have been expended for the purposes set forth in this Act.
In the event any of the fire companies hereinbefore mentioned
cease to remain incorporated bodies or active fire fighting or-
ganizations, or have not used the moneys appropriated to them
for the sole purposes set forth in this Act, then the County
Commissioners are authorized and directed to pay to the other
volunteer fire companies mentioned in this Act, in equal pro-
portions the unexpended moneys in the hands of the said Coun-
ty Commissioners.

Section 4. Be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect from the first day of June, 1927.

Approved March 18, 1927.

CHAPTER 102.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Section 324
of Offutt's Code of Public Local Laws of Baltimore County,
Edition of 1916, title "Baltimore County, " sub-title "Jus-
tices of the Peace and Constables, " as the same was repealed
and re-enacted with amendments by Chapter 248 of the
Acts of 1924, relating to fees of justices of the peace in
Baltimore County, and relating to compensation of certain
of said justices sitting as committing, magistrates.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Section 324 of Offutts' Code of Public Local
Laws of Baltimore County, Edition of 1916, title "Baltimore

County, " sub-title "Justices of the Peace and Constables, " as
the same was repealed and re-enacted with amendments by