482 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 270

for the next ensuing year and levied and collected in the
next year's taxes.

SEC. 2 And be it further enacted. That this Act is hereby
declared to be an emergency law and necessary for the imme-
diate preservation of the public health and safety, and being
passed upon a yea and nay vote, supported by three-fifths of
all of 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 April 1, 1927.

CHAPTER 270.

AN ACT to provide for the payment by the County Com-
missioners of Caroline County, Maryland, to certain volun-
teer fire companies in Caroline County, Maryland, so long
as said fire companies remain active bodies and active
fire fighting organizations, the sum of Eight Hundred
Dollars ($800. 00) annually for their benefit and for cer-
tain purposes, and to levy said amount on the assessable
property of said County, and to provide for the date on
which said payment shall be made.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the County Commissioners of Caroline
County be and they are hereby authorized, empowered and
directed to pay the sum of Eight Hundred Dollars ($800. 00)
annually to the several volunteer fire companies so long as
said fire companies remain active bodies, and active fire
fighting organizations for their benefit, said sum of money
to be used by the respective fire companies for the purchase,
repair or maintenance of fire fighting equipment.

SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That said payment shall
be made on the first day of September in each and every year
by the County Commissioners of Caroline County, and it
shall be distributed as follows: To the Denton Volunteer
Fire Company, Incorporated, of Denton, Maryland, the sum
of Three Hundred Dollars ($300. 00); to the Federalsburg
Fire Company of Federalsburg, Maryland, the sum of Two