36 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 1

SEPARABILITY OF PROVISIONS.

21. If any provision of this Act, or the application
thereof to any person or circumstance, is held invalid, the
remainder of this Act and the application of such pro-
vision to other persons or circumstances shall not be af-
fected thereby. If any provision, clause, sentence or sec-
tion of this Act shall be declared to be invalid or in vio-
lation of any provision of the State or Federal Constitution,
the remainder of said Act shall stand and be effective not-
withstanding.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act is
hereby declared to be an emergency law and necessary for
the immediate preservation of the public health and safety,
and having been passed upon a yea and nay vote, sup-
ported by three-fifths of all 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 December 17, 1936.

December 17th, 1936.

Having been advised by the Federal Social Security Board
that the Unemployment Insurance Bill as enacted by the
General Assembly in recent Extraordinary Session, must
first be approved by me before that Board can certify that
it meets with the minimum; requirements of the Federal
Law, I have this day affixed my signature, and shall imme-
diately send the completed Bill to Washington for approval.

The measure is clearly deficient in several particulars,
but, in the main, it follows the structure of the bill prepared
by the Committee which I appointed recently. Although the
reduction in the rate of tax, with its consequent reduction
of benefits to the employees of Maryland, is regrettable, this
involves only a matter of detail which I am confident will
before long be suitably amended.

The real achievement was the incorporation into the per-
manent fabric of the social policy of our State of the prin-
ciple of unemployment insurance legislation, for the Legis-
lature has wisely provided that the State law will not depend
for its validity upon the constitutionality of the Federal
Social Security Act.