652 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 310

writing by not fewer than ten per centum of the dis-
tributors in number and representing not less than sixty-
five per cent, of the volume of milk in the area affected, the
Commission may approve, modify or re ject such agreement.
Any such agreement approved by the Commission as
offered or as modified by it, shall become effective.

(c) For any advisory board appointed pursuant to
sub-paragraph (f) of section 3 of this Act, or for any two
or more advisory boards appointed pursuant to said
paragraph, acting jointly, in any market in which no
agreement authorized by and approved pursuant to para-
graph (a) and/or (b) of this section is in force, to propose
for such market uniform schedules of prices for milk in
such market, and rules and regulations governing the
method of determining the proportion of the lacteal secre-
tion of the entire herd of a producer which shall be ac-
cepted and paid for pursuant to such prices, or establish-
ing other reasonable trade practices affecting the relations
between milk dealers and/or between producers and dis-
tributors in such market. The action of such advisory
board or boards shall be submitted to the Commission in
the form of written recommendations. Upon receipt of
any such written recommendations, the Commission shall
give notice as prescribed in paragraph (a) and/or (b) of
this section to all applicants or licensees or permit holders
in the market affected thereby, and afford a hearing as pro-
vided in said paragraphs. Upon such hearing, the Commis-
sion may approve or modify such recommendations, and
thereupon such schedule of prices and rules and regulations
as so approved or modified shall become effective.

When adopted or approved by the Commission, pursuant
to this section, any price to be paid or charged, and any
rule or regulation mentioned in this section, shall apply to
all milk dealers affected thereby doing business in the mar-
ket or marketing area to which the same relates, whether
parties to any agreement whereby the same shall have
been fixed or adopted, or not and to all producers supply-
ing milk to such dealers.

Section 15. All moneys received by the Commission
shall be paid into the State Treasury in a manner prescribed
by the Board of Public Works to the credit of a special fund
therein to be known as the "Milk Marketing Fund". Said
fund shall be subject to withdrawal by the Commission on
vouchers drawn upon the State Comptroller, signed by the
executive secretary and countersigned by the chairman or
acting chairman. The entire amount of money in this fund