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educational or charitable organizations or corporations, or
volunteer fire companies to conduct or operate a game of bingo
for the benefit of charity in Frederick County, or in further-
ance of the purpose of such organizations, corporations or vol-
unteer fire department.

(b) It shall be unlawful, however, for any individual, copart-
nership, corporation or any group or organization, not legal
residents of Frederick County, to operate any game of bingo
in Frederick County, for the benefit of any local organization;
provided, however, that the Frederick County Agricultural
Association may sell or lease the right or concession to any
person, copartnership, firm, group, corporation or organiza-
tion, regardless of the residence of the purchaser or lessee to
conduct or operate the game of bingo at the Frederick County
Fair each year.

(c) No person, firm, corporation or other association shall
operate or conduct any game of bingo in Frederick County
unless he (or it) shall have first obtained a permit from the
Sheriff of Frederick County and shall have paid a fee to said
Sheriff of 25 cents for each day that every such game is op-
erated or conducted.

(d) In Frederick County no prize or award having a fair
market value in excess of f 10. 00 may be offered or given to
any player of any such bingo game; and no such player may
be offered a cash prize.

(e) No person may be charged more than 5 cents to play
any such bingo game in Frederick County.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall be
declared to be an emergency measure and necessary for the
immediate preservation of the public health and safety and
being 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 23, 1941.

CHAPTER 425.
(House Bill 63)

AN ACT to add a new section to Article 22 of the Code of
Public Local Laws of Maryland (1930 Edition), title "Wash-
ington County", sub-title "County Commissioners", said new
section to be known as Section 162A and to follow imme-
diately after Section 162 of said Article, providing a Board