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application for retirement. No money payable under this sub-
title shall, prior to issuance and delivery of the warrant or
voucher therefor, be capable of being assigned, charged or
taken in execution or attachment. All employees subject to
the provisions of this sub-title shall contribute to the Pension
Fund, hereinafter provided for, a sum to be determined by the
Superintendent of the Department of Maryland State Police
but not to exceed three and one-half per centum (3%%) of
their annual salary, said sum to be approximately equal to
one-half of the annual cost of this pension system to the
individual employee so contributing. The amount of the con-
tribution of each of the employees subject to the provisions of
this sub-title shall be fixed annually in advance by the Super-
intendent of the Department of Maryland State Police and
shall be deducted monthly from the salary checks of the said
employees and paid in lieu thereof to the Superintendent of
the Department of Maryland State Police to be placed by him
forthwith in the said Pension Fund. The said Fund shall also
consist of all fines imposed upon members of the Maryland
State Police by way of discipline, donations and net proceeds
of sales of unclaimed property in the custody of the Depart-
ment of Maryland State Police.

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

Approved May 6, 1941.

CHAPTER 823.
(House Bill 860)

AN ACT to repeal Section 74 of Article 56 of the Annotated
Code of Maryland (1939 Edition), title "Licenses", sub-title
- "Tax on Admissions", and to enact in lien thereof five
new sections to be added to said Article, to be known as
Sections 74, 74A, 74B, 740 and 74D, to follow immediately
after said sub-title, imposing a tax on the gross receipts from
certain admissions and charges with respect to certain
places of amusement and forms of recreation, and on passes
thereto, providing for the collection of the tax and imposing
penal ties for the violation of the provisions of said sub-title.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted 'by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 74 of Article 56 of the Annotated Code of
Maryland (1939 Edition), title "Licenses", sub-title "Tax on
Admissions", be and it is hereby repealed and in lieu thereof