WM. PRESTON LANE, JR., GOVERNOR 441

three-fifths of all the members elected to each of the two
Houses of the General Assembly of Maryland, the same shall
take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved March 28, 1950.

CHAPTER 100
(House Bill 144)

AN ACT authorizing the County Commissioners of Allegany
County to make a contribution of Thirty Thousand Dollars
($30,000.00) to the Board of Governors of the Memorial
Hospital of Cumberland and providing for the financing of
said contribution by the issuance of promissory notes or
bonds and to repeal Chapter 727 of the Laws of 1949.

WHEREAS, it is believed that a contagious diseases unit is
necessary at the Memorial Hospital in the City of Cumber-
land, in order that its operating efficiency and community
service and benefits may be increased, and that the County
Commissioners of Allegany County, along with other public
agencies, should contribute to the cost thereof; now, therefore

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the County Commissioners of Allegany County be
and they are hereby authorized and empowered at any time
hereafter to raise, contribute and deliver to the Board of
Governors of the Memorial Hospital of Cumberland, Mary-
land, a body corporate, the sum of Thirty Thousand Dollars
($30,000.00), to be used and applied by said corporation ex-
clusively for the purpose of defraying the cost of financing
the construction of a contagious diseases unit.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the County Com-
missioners of Allegany County are hereby authorized and em-
powered to provide said contribution by borrowing a sum not
to exceed Thirty Thousand Dollars ($30,000.00) and to secure
said loan either by giving a promissory note or notes of said
County for said amount; or said County Commissioners in
their absolute discretion may raise the entire amount of said

EXPLANATION: Italics indicate new matter added to existing law.

[Brackets] indicate matter stricken from existing law.
CAPITALS indicate amendments to bill.
Strike-out indicates matter stricken out of bill.