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Fire Department, the Grantsville Volunteer Fire Department
and the Bloomington Volunteer Fire Department, so long as
each of said fire departments remains an active fire fight-
ing organization, for their benefit, said sums of money to
be used by the said fire departments for the purchase,
repair or maintenance of fire fighting equipment.

184. The County Commissioners of Garrett County are
hereby authorized, directed and empowered to levy the sum
of Four Thousand Dollars ($4, 000. 00) annually for the
above purposes on the assessable property of said County.
Before the County Commissioners shall be required to pay
the aforesaid sums of money, the said Commissioners shall
have the power to require the officers of said fire depart-
ments to appear before them and show to the satisfaction
of said Commissioners that any sums of money paid by
the said Commissioners to the said fire departments under
this sub-title have been expended for the purposes set forth
in this sub-title, and also that said fire departments are
active fire fighting organizations. In the event said fire
departments hereinbefore mentioned cease to remain active
fire fighting organizations or have not used the moneys
appropriated to them for the sole purposes set forth in
this sub-title, then this sub-title shall become null and void.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall
take effect June 1, 1943.

Approved March 31, 1943.

CHAPTER 344.
(Senate Bill 326)

AN ACT to repeal Sections 229-238F, inclusive, of Article
8 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland (1930
Edition), title "Cecil County", sub-title "Justices of the
Peace and Constables", Sections 238A-238F having been
enacted by Chapter 170 of the Acts of 1931, relating to
Justices of the Peace and Police Justices of Cecil County.

Whereas, Chapter 720 of the Acts of 1939 (Sections 93-
114, inclusive, of Article 52 of the Annotated Code of Mary-
land (1939 Edition), created a Trial Magistrates System,
thereby making unnecessary local laws relating to Justices
of the Peace and Trial Magistrates; therefore