310 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 136

CHAPTER 136.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Section
13 of Article 78B of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1935 Supplement), title "Racing Commission, " provid-
ing that the Pocomoke Agricultural Association, Inc.,
shall be entitled to conduct one race meeting each year
for a period of ten days, and the Harford County Fair
Association, Inc., to conduct one race meeting each year
for a period of five days.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Section 13 of Article 78B of the Annotated
Code of Maryland (1935 Supplement), title "Racing Com-
mission, " be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted with
amendments to read as follows:

13. In addition to licensing racing for not exceeding one
hundred days as hereinbefore provided, bona fide County
Fairs or Agricultural Exhibits may be licensed by the Rac-
ing Commission to conduct racing during not more than
five days each in any one year upon payment by the
applicant of a license fee of Fifty Dollars a day for such
meeting so authorized; the Agricultural and Mechanical
Association of Washington County shall, however, be en-
titled to a license to conduct two meetings of five days each
in any one year, with betting privileges. And the Cumber-
land Fair Association, Inc., shall be entitled to a license to
conduct one meeting each year for a period of ten days,
with betting privileges. And the Pocomoke Agricultural
Fair Association, Inc., shall be entitled to a license to con-
duct one race meeting each year for a period of ten days,
with betting privileges. And the Harford County Fair As-
sociation, Inc., shall be entitled to a license to conduct one
race meeting each year for a period of five days with bet-
ting privileges. No such license shall be granted unless the
commission is satisfied that the main purpose of such fair
or exhibition is the encouragement of agriculture and that
the same constitutes a bona fide exhibit of that character.
All license fees received under the provisions of this para-
graph shall be paid to the Treasurer of the County in which
such fair or exhibit may be held.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall
take effect June 1, 1936.

Approved April 29, 1936.