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SECTION 771A. The Commissioners of the Town of
Thurmont are authorized and directed to extend the tax-
able limits of the Town of Thurmont as they may deem
just but in no instance shall said taxable limits exceed the
corporate limits as laid down in Section 771 of Flack's
Code of Public Local Laws of Frederick County.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act is
hereby declared to be an emergency law and 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 General Assembly of Maryland, the same
shall take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved February 16, 1939.

CHAPTER 16.
(Senate Bill 13)

AN ACT to add a new sub-section to Section 6 of Article
4 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland (1938
Edition), title "Baltimore City, " sub-title "General
Powers, " sub-heading "Pensions, " said new sub-section
to be known as Sub-section 20E and to follow immedi-
ately after Sub-section 20D of said Section 6 of said
Article, authorizing the Mayor and City Council of Bal-
timore to provide by ordinance for granting to the offi-
cers, agents, servants and employees of the Enoch Pratt
Free Library, the Walters' Art Gallery, the Baltimore
Museum of Art and the Municipal Museum of Balti-
more, any of the benefits and advantages of the Employ-
ees' Retirement System of the City of Baltimore and
specifying the credits which may be allowed said officers,
agents, servants and employees for prior service, and
providing that said officers, agents, servants and em-
ployees who become such after the passage of said ordi-
nance shall submit to medical examinations before
being admitted to said Employees' Retirement System.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That a new sub-section be and it is hereby added
to Section 6 of Article 4 of the Code of Public Local Laws
of Maryland (1930 Edition), title "Baltimore City, " sub-
title "General Powers, " sub-heading "Pensions, " said new
sub-section to be known as Sub-section 20E, to follow im-