1158 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 552
CHAPTER 552.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Sec-
tion 68 of Article 77 of the Annotated Code of Mary-
land, 1924 Edition, title "Public Education", sub-title
"Chapter 5 District School Trustees" (as said Section
was amended by Chapter 186 of the Acts of 1933), to
authorize the use of public school houses for meetings
of the Farmers' Educational and Co-Operative Union
of America.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Section 68 of Article 77 of the Annotated
Code of Maryland, 1924 Edition, title "Public Education",
sub-title "Chapter 5 District School Trustees" (as said
Section was amended by Chapter 186 of the Acts of 1933),
be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted with amend-
ments to read as follows:

68. The County School Superintendents of Maryland
be, and they are hereby authorized to enlarge the useful-
ness and increase the efficiency of public school property
by allowing the use of public school houses for farmers'
meetings, meetings of the Farmers' Educational and Co-
operative Union of America, Grange meetings, Maryland
Agricultural Society-Maryland Farm Bureau Federation,
public speakings, lectures, entertainments, church festivals,
Red Cross meetings, Y. M. C. A. meetings, meetings and en-
tertainments of the American Legion, Veterans of For-
eign Wars, United Spanish-American War Veterans and
other regularly incorporated and recognized veterans' as-
sociations, and for any other purposes which are for the
civic welfare. Provided, however, that all such meetings
held in the public school buildings shall at all times be open
to the public.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall
take effect June 1st, 1935.

Approved May 17, 1935.

CHAPTER 553.

AN ACT to add a new section to Article 72 of the Code of
Public General Laws of Maryland, 1929 Supplement,
title "Oysters, " sub-title "Oyster Culture, " said new