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of the State Treasury in the fiscal years ending June 30, 1944,
and June 30, 1945, or either of them, whatever sum or sums
may be required to meet the payments herein provided to be
made by the State of Maryland, exclusive of the sums to be
paid from the State Roads Commission Funds, Special Funds,
and from Federal funds or from State funds derived from
Federal sources. The payment of the sums herein provided
to be paid from State Roads Commission Funds, from Special
Funds, and from Federal funds or from State funds derived
from Federal sources is hereby authorized and the appropriate
State officials are hereby empowered to provide for and make
said payments; provided, however, that should there not be
sufficient money in any Special Fund to provide for the pay-
ments to be made from such Special Fund, as herein author-
ized, any such deficit and deficits shall be paid from the
General Surplus, Account of the State Treasury in the fiscal
year ending June 30, 1944, and June 30, 1945, or either of
them. All the aforesaid appropriations and dedications of
funds are hereby declared to be emergency appropriations,
and the State Comptroller and State Treasurer are hereby
authorized to make the disbursements provided for in this Act
from the funds hereby appropriated in accordance with the
terms and provisions of this Act.

SEC. 10. 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 by a yea and nay vote, supported 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 March 16, 1944.

CHAPTER 1.

(Senate Bill No. 13)

AN ACT to add a new section to Article 81 of the Annotated
Code of Maryland (1939 Edition), title "Revenue and Taxes",
sub-title "Tax Sales", said new section to follow immediately
after Section 71 of said Article, and to be the first section
under said sub-title of said Article, and to be known as
Section 71A; providing that all unpaid State, County and
City taxes on real estate shall be liens on the real estate
with respect to which they are levied, from the date they