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maintain a surplus fund to be designated as the "Revolving
Fund", which shall consist of the amount which by a resolu-
tion of said County Commissioners of the twelfth day of June,
1934, was stated to be in a similarly designated fund. The
monies carried on the books and accounts of said Howard
County to the credit of said Revolving Fund shall be available
for use by said County Commissioners in the payment of any
indebtedness of said county as the same shall become due and
payable; provided, however, that in each levy succeeding that
in which any amount of such fund is used, the said County
Commissioners shall, in making the annual levy, levy an
amount equal to that expended from said fund and shall credit
the amount so levied to said fund, so that said fund shall, from
year to year; provided, however, that when any part or the
whole of said fund shall be expended, the said County Com-
missioners shall, in making the next annual levy, levy an
amount equal to that expended from said fund, and shall
credit the amount so levied to said fund, so that said fund
shall, from year to year, be maintained at the amount above
referred to.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act is hereby
declared to be an emergency law and necessary for the im-
mediate preservation of the public health and safety, and
having been 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 May 6, 1943.

CHAPTER 399.
(House Bill 549)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section
99 of Article 14 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Mary-
land (1930 Edition), title "Howard County", sub-title
"County Treasurer", as the same was repealed and re-
enacted, with amendments, by Section 1, Chapter 4, Acts of
1933, relating to the payment of taxes.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 99 of Article 14 of the Code of Public Local
Laws of Maryland (1930 Edition), title "Howard County",
sub-title "County Treasurer", be and it is hereby repealed and
re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows: