624 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 511

Local Laws of Maryland (1930 Edition), title "Baltimore
County", sub-title "County Commissioners", as said section
was enacted by Chapter 132 of the Acts of the General As-
sembly of Maryland at the Regular Session of 1937, be, and the
same is hereby, repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to
read as follows:

127A. (1) The County Commissioners of Baltimore County
hereafter, when making up their regular annual County levy,
are hereby authorized to levy annually on all the assessable
property liable to taxation by said Commissioners a sum not
to exceed Ten Thousand Dollars ($10, 000. 00) per annum, to
be expended in the discretion of said Commissioners for hos-
pitalization of indigent and destitute bona fide residents of
said County, at a rate not exceeding Four Dollars ($4. 00) per
day per patient.

(2) And the County Commissioners of Baltimore County
are further authorized and empowered to enter into any agree-
ments, contracts or undertakings with the State of Maryland,
the United States of America or any agency thereof, or any
other person, firm or corporation, with respect to any neces-
sary matters pertaining to a public hospital in Baltimore
County, including specifically, but not by way of limitation,
agreements relating to erection, construction, loans, land pur-
chases, and other necessary matters in connection therewith.

(3) The County Commissioners of Baltimore County are
also authorized and empowered to employ or to authorize the
employment of such personnel as may be deemed necessary
and proper for the operation and maintenance of any public
hospital so constructed on such terms as it may determine, and
to provide for and authorize the payment of salaries and ex-
penses in connection with the operation, maintenance and out-
fitting of said hospital, to levy such sum or sums on the assess-
able property of Baltimore County as shall be necessary to pay
said salaries, and any expenses incurred in connection with
powers granted under this Act.

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 4, 1943^