1156 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 667

$500, Branchville Rescue Squad $1, 000, and said total of Twenty
Thousand Three Hundred Dollars ($20, 300. 00) shall be dis-
bursed by him only on order of the Board of Directors of said
Association to the member companies, departments or rescue
squads of said Association, only for the purpose of purchasing,
repairing and maintaining apparatus and equipment; pro-
vided, however, that no payment shall be made to any com-
pany or department which has resolution or regulation limit-
ing the territory within which it will respond to calls and pro-
vided further that before any new volunteer fire association,
company or corporation shall share in said appropriation, said
association, company or corporation must receive the approval
of the County Commissioners. Before the County Commis-
sioners shall be required to pay the aforesaid sum of money
to the said Fire Association, the said Commissioners shall
have the power to require the officers of said Association to
appear before them and show to the satisfaction of said Com-
missioners that all sums of money paid by the said Commis-
sioners to the said Association under this Act have been ex-
pended for the purposes set forth in this Act, and also that
all member companies are active fire fighting or rescue squad
organizations with equipment in proper working order. Pro-
vided, however, that no rescue squad not now in existence may
be organized in Prince George's County without the approval
of the Board of Directors of the Prince George's County Vol-
unteer Fire Association and the County Commissioners of
Prince George's County and if any additional rescue squad or
squads are organized the payment to them must be provided
out of a reduction in the amount of payments to the now ex-
isting rescue squads as hereinabove set forth.

4. The Treasurer of Prince George's County Volunteer Fire
Association shall give bond to the County Commissioners of
Prince George's County in the penal sum of Twenty Thousand
Three Hundred Dollars ($20, 300. 00) for the faithful perform-
ance of his duties hereunder.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect June 1. 1941.

Approved May 2, 1941.

CHAPTER 667.

(House Bill 757)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 104
of Article 12 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland
(1930 Edition), title "Garrett County", sub-title "County