ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR.                     67

dollars ($200. 00) annually to the Kitzmillersville Volunteer
Fire Department.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Sections 182 and 184 of Article 12 of the Code
of Public Local Laws of Maryland (1930 Edition), title "Gar-
rett County, " sub-title "Fire Departments, " be and the same are
hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as
follows:

182. The County Commissioners of Garrett County are
hereby authorized, empowered and directed to pay the sum
of six hundred dollars ($600. 00) annually to the Oakland
Volunteer Fire Department, the sum of two hundred dollars
($200. 00) annually to the Kitzmillersville Volunteer Fire De-
partment, and the sum of two hundred dollars ($200. 00) an-
nually to the Grantsville Volunteer Fire Department, so long
as each of said fire departments remains an active fire fighting
organization, for their benefit, said sums of money to be used by
the said fire departments for the purchase, repair or mainte-
nance of fire fighting equipment.

184. The County Commissioners of Garrett County are
hereby authorized, directed and empowered to levy the sum
of ten hundred dollars ($1, 000. 00) annually for the above
purposes on the assessable property of said County. Be-
fore the County Commissioners shall be required to pay
the aforesaid sums of money, the said Commissioners shall have
the power to require the officers of said fire, departments to
appear before them and show to the satisfaction of said Com-
missioners that any sums of money paid by the said Commis-
sioners to the said fire departments under this Act have been
expended for the purposes set forth in this Act, and also that
said fire departments are active fire fighting organizations. In
the event said fire departments hereinbefore mentioned cease
to remain active fire fighting organizations or have not used
the moneys appropriated to them for the sole purposes set
forth in this Act, then this Act shall become null and void.

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 upon a yea and nay vote, supported by three-fifths