HARRY W. NICE, GOVERNOR. 325

Drinks, " as said section was amended by Chapter 35 of the
Acts of the Extraordinary Session of 1933, be and it is
hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read
as follows:

126. The applicant for a license to sell spirituous or fer-
mented liquors of any kind whatsoever, containing more
than 8% of alcohol by volume, shall pay to the Clerk of the
Circuit Court upon the issuing of such license the sum of
one hundred dollars ($100. 00) for one year or such pro
rata part of said sum for a shorter period. And any licensee
who shall take out said license shall have the right to sell
beer and all other alcoholic drinks or beverages of any alco-
holic contents. The applicant for a license to sell wine, beer
or other spirituous or fermented beverages, containing less
than 8% of alcohol by volume, shall pay to the Clerk of
the Circuit Court upon the issuing of such license the sum
of twenty-five dollars ($25. 00) for one year or such pro
rata part of said sum for a shorter period. All the funds
received by the Clerk of the Circuit Court under the pro-
visions of this section, less the Clerk's fee and any refunds,
shall be paid over by him to the County Commissioners of
St. Mary's County. The funds thus received by the County
Commissioners prior to May 1, 1937, not exceeding seven
thousand dollars ($7, 000. 00) in any scholastic year, shall
be used for the transportation to and from school of chil-
dren attending any school in St. Mary's County not receiv-
ing State Aid. Any amount in excess of seven thousand
dollars ($7, 000. 00) so received by the County Commission-
ers shall be used by them in reducing the tax required to
be levied for the public schools of said County by the Gen-
eral State Law. The said County Commissioners shall in-
clude in their annual statement of expenses an itemized
statement of the expenditures made under the provisions
of this section.

Any person violating any of the provisions of this section
shall be punished by a fine not exceeding five hundred dol-
lars ($500. 00). \

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 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: May 17, 1935.