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2A. In order to maintain full co-operation in the war
effort in all fields of proper State activity and to secure con-
certed action among the States to preserve the operations of
State functions of government, it shall be the duty of the At-
torney General to study existing and proposed Federal legis-
lation, and to cooperate with the Attorneys General of other
cooperating States in such studies to determine the effect of
such legislation upon the normal field of State functions and
powers, and to report to this State's Governor, Senators and
Representatives in Congress the results of such studies in all
instances where he deems such action appropriate, or where,
in his opinion, any legislation affects, or would affect, if
enacted into law, the normal field of State functions and
powers.

The Attorney General shall also make any reasonable or
appropriate investigation or study of any such existing or
proposed Federal legislation whenever he is specifically re-
quested so to do by any of this State's Senators or Repre-
sentatives in Congress, and report the result thereof as re-
quested.

2B. The Attorney General and/or any Assistant desig-
nated by him is hereby authorized to become a member of an
organization now existing or hereafter formed, consisting
of the Attorneys General of similarly cooperating States
and/or their Deputies or Assistants, and is further author-
ized, through such organization or otherwise, to utilize the
services of the Council of State Governments in any manner
deemed appropriate to accomplish the purposes of this Act,
and to contribute to the cost of such services and the expense
of any organization formed for the purposes aforesaid from
any appropriation made available therefor in the Budget.

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

Approved May 4, 1943.

CHAPTER 508.
(House Bill 346)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section
84 of Article 77 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1939
Edition), title "Public Education", sub-title "Chapter 7.
Schools", changing the time as to financial reports of schools.