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tory, industry, establishment or plant to locate in Allegany
County, and, when in the opinion of said County Commission-
ers the public welfare so requires, to extend the benefits of said
exemption for a further period of not more than ten years.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act is hereby
declared to be an emergency law and necessary for "the imme-
diate 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 Gen-
eral Assembly, the same shall take effect from the date of its
passage.

Approved February 19, 1931.

CHAPTER 8.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 65
of Article 1A of the Code of Public Laws of Maryland
(1930 Edition), title "City of Cumberland, " sub-title
"Taxes, " authorizing the extension of contracts for exemp-
tion from taxation.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Section 65 of Article 1A of the Code of Public
Local Laws of Maryland (1930 Edition), title "City of Cum-
berland, " sub-title "Taxes, " be and the same is hereby repealed
and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

65. Said Mayor and City Council shall have the power to
make contracts exempting from city taxation the real and per-
sonal property or capital stock of any manufacturing company
or enterprise desiring to locate in said city, and as an induce-
ment to the same to locate therein; provided, that such contract
to exempt the same shall be limited as to time, and shall not
exceed ten years, but in the event that the said Mayor and
City Council shall find the public interest and general welfare
so requires, said Mayor and City Council shall have the power
to extend said contract of exemption for a further period not
to exceed ten years.