HERBERT R. O'CONOR, GOVERNOR. 1779

(1939 Edition), title "Racing Commission", authorizing the
Maryland Racing Commission to designate the track or
tracks at which racing may be conducted, under certain
circumstances and conditions, and the number of days which
may be assigned to any association for race meetings, and
providing for the transfer of race meetings to other tracks
and for the refund of license fees, under certain conditions.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Sections 7 and 17 of Article 78B of the Annotated
Code of Maryland (1939 Edition), title "Racing Commission",
be and they are hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amend-
ments, to read as follows:

7. Any person or persons, association or corporation desiring
to conduct racing within the State of Maryland during any
calendar year, shall apply to the Maryland Racing Commission
lor a license so to do. Such application shall be filed with the
Secretary of the Commission on or before a day to be fixed
by the Commission. Such application shall specify the days
on which such racing is desired to be conducted or held, and
such application shall be in such form and supply such data
and information as the said Maryland Racing Commission
shall prescribe. Said Racing Commission shall, as soon as
practicable during nineteen hundred and forty-three (1943),
and on or before the first day of March of each year there-
after, award all dates for racing in the State of Mary-
land within the current year, but the said dates so awarded
shall not exceed One Hundred Days in the aggregate, and
the decision of the Commission on the award of all such
dates shall be final. In addition to the racing days authorized
by other provisions of this Article, the Commission may license
for a period not exceeding ten (10) days in any one year, one
race meeting exclusively for trotting and pacing races for a
daily license fee of Fifty Dollars ($50. 00), and there shall
also be paid to the Commission, not longer than five (5) days
after the close of a meeting so licensed, one percentum of
the whole amount wagered during said meeting, and all the
money so paid, shall be paid over by the Commission to the
Treasurer of the State of Maryland. The Commission shall
have the power to reject any application for a license for any
cause which it may deem sufficient and the action of the
Commission shall be final. No one person, corporation or asso-
ciation shall be given a license to conduct racing for more
than fifty (. 50) days in one year, nor shall more than an aggre-
gate of fifty (50) days racing be held in any one year on any
one track within the State of Maryland. The said Racing
Commission may, at any time or times, in its discretion, au-
thorize any person, corporation or association to transfer its