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23. (a) Eligibility for Assistance to Dependent Children.
Assistance shall be given under this sub-title to any dependent
child who has resided in this State for one year immediately
preceding the application for such assistance; or was born
within the State within one year immediately preceding the
application, and whose mother has resided in the State one
year immediately preceding the birth of said child; or whose
parent has resided in this State for one year immediately pre-
ceding the date of application; and

30. The County Commissioners of each county and the
Mayor and City Council of Baltimore shall annually levy one
cent (1¢) on each one hundred dollars of assessable property
to carry out the provisions of this sub-title, or shall provide
for the same out of the general revenue. The County Com-
missioners of each county and the Mayor and City Council
of Baltimore may levy for or appropriate, with the approval
of the State Department, additional funds, to be turned over
to the State Comptroller and expended to effectuate the pur-
poses of this sub-title. Should the fund or funds available be
sufficient to permit a grant to only a part of the dependent
children coming within the provisions of this sub-title, the
local unit shall select in its discretion those in most urgent
need of such assistance.

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
General Assembly, the same shall take effect from the date
of its passage.

Approved April 13_? 1939.

CHAPTER 235.
(House Bill 228)

AN ACT to authorize the Mayor and Council of Mt. Airy,
Carroll and Frederick Counties, Maryland, to issue and sell
bonds to an amount not to exceed Fifty-nine Thousand Dol-
lars ($59, 000) for the purpose of redeeming and refunding
certain bonds of said town, and to levy and collect taxes
upon the assessable property in said town for the purpose of
paying the principal and interest on said bonds.