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assistance, maintenance and support of the various incor-
porated volunteer fire companies in said Worcester County
as hereinafter more particularly set forth.

80. The funds so raised by the levy of taxes as afore-
said shall be distributed and expended by the County Com-
missioners of Worcester County in the manner following,
that is to say: "Three-fourths of the said funds so raised
shall be equally divided among the incorporated volunteer
fire companies in the towns of Ocean City, Berlin, Newark,
Snow Hill, Stockton and Pocomoke City and shall be paid
to said companies on or before the first day of February
next succeeding the date on which said taxes shall be
levied; the remaining one-fourth of the funds so raised by
taxation as aforesaid shall be expended by the said County
Commissioners of Worcester County in their discretion in
the assistance, maintenance and support of any volunteer
fire company or companies in said Worcester County which
shall organize and incorporate subsequent to March 1st,
1939, provided, however, that any of the funds levied
and raised under this Act which may remain unex-
pended in the hands of the said County Commissioners on
the last day of the fiscal year for which said taxes shall have
been levied shall be distributed by the said County Commis-
sioners equally among all of the incorporated volunteer
fire companies in said Worcester County.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall
take effect June 1st, 1939.

Approved May 11, 1939.

CHAPTER 119.
(Senate Bill 88)

AN ACT to repeal Section 764 of Article 11 of the Code
of Public Local Laws of Maryland (1930 Edition), title
"Frederick County", sub-title "Thurmont", and to re-
peal and re-enact with amendments Section 763 of said
Article, relating to voters in Thurmont.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Section 764 of Article 11 of the Code of
Public Local Laws of Maryland (1930 Edition), title
"Frederick County", sub-title "Thurmont", be and it is
hereby repealed; and that Section 763 of said Article be