HARRY W. NICE, GOVERNOR. 891

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall
be declared to be an emergency Act and necessary for the
immediate preservation of the public health and safety,
and being 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.

CHAPTER 409.

AN ACT to create the Upper Potomac River District and
define its boundaries; to create the Upper Potomac
River Commission, to incorporate the same, to define its
its powers, duties and privileges, and to provide for the
government of the Upper Potomac River District by
the Upper Potomac River Commission; to authorize the
Upper Potomac River Commission to employ such per-
sons, engineering, clerical or otherwise, as may be re-
quired, in the performance of the duties specified under
this Act; to acquire by purchase or condemnation lands,
structures or buildings, or any stream bed, \vater way,
road way, rights of way, watershed, or water rights
within the District, for the construction, expansion or
maintenance of any dam, reservoir or appurtenances
thereof; to provide for the construction, maintenance
and operation of structures, buildings, dams, impound-
ing reservoirs and appurtenances; to provide for the
regulation of the flow of water within the district
and its tributaries; to provide for the levy of
taxes by the County Commissioners of Allegany County
for the operation, maintenance, regulation and control
of works purchased, acquired or constructed under the
provisions of this Act; to authorize the County Commis-
sioners of Allegany County to submit to the voters of
said County the advisability of making a capital ex-
penditure of not exceeding Two Hundred Thousand
($200, 000. 00) Dollars in furthering the purposes of this
Act, and, in case of a favorable vote thereon, to borrow
or sell bonds up to that amount and turn the proceeds
thereof over to the Upper Potomac River Commission;
to secure benefits of an Act of the Congress of the
United States of America approved June 16, 1933,
known as the National Industrial Recovery Act, and any
Acts amendatory thereof, and any Acts supplemental