HERBERT R. O'CONOR., GOVERNOR. 9

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Sections 7, 8, 11, 12, 13 and 15 of Article 78B of the
Annotated Code of Maryland (1939 Edition and 1943 Supple-
ment), title "Racing Commission",. Sections 11 and 13 having
been amended by Chapter 961 of the Acts of 1945, be and they
are hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read
as follows:

7. Any person or persons, association or corporation, desir-
ing to conduct racing within the State of Maryland during
any calendar year, shall apply to the Maryland Racing Com-
mission for a license so to do. Such application shall be filed
with the Secretary of the Commission on or before a day to be
fixed by the Commission. Such application shall specify the
days on which such racing is desired to be conducted or held,
and such application shall be in such form and supply such
data and information as the said Maryland Racing Commis-
sion shall prescribe. Said Racing Commission shall, as soon
as practicable during nineteen hundred and forty-three (1943)
and on or before the first day of March of each year there-
after, award all dates for racing in the State of Maryland
within the current year, but the said dates so awarded shall
not exceed One Hundred Days in the aggregate, and the
decision of the Commission on the award of all such dates
shall be final. In addition to the racing days authorized by
other provisions of this Article, the Commission may license
for a period not exceeding ten (10) days in any one year, one
race meeting exclusively for trotting and pacing races for a
daily license fee of Fifty Dollars ($50.00), and there shall also
be paid to the Commission, not longer than five (5) days after
the close of a meeting so licensed, one per centum of the whole
amount wagered during said meeting, and all the money so paid
shall be paid over by the Commission to the Treasurer of the
State of Maryland. The Commission shall have the power to re-
ject any application for a license for any cause which it may
deem sufficient and the action of the Commission shall be final.
No one person, corporation or association shall be given a
license to conduct racing for more than fifty (50) days in one
year, nor shall more than an aggregate of fifty (50) days rac-
ing be held in any one year on any one track within the State of
Maryland. The said Racing Commission may, at any time or
times, in its discretion, authorize any person, corporation or
association to transfer its racing meet or meetings from its
own track, or place for holding races, to the track, or place
for holding races, of any other person, corporation or associa-
tion now conducting racing in the State of Maryland upon
payment of any and all appropriate license fees for the conduct
of racing at the particular track, or place for holding races,
on which the racing is to be conducted; provided, however,
that no such authority to transfer shall be granted without
the express consent of the person, corporation or association