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renewal at any time within one year from the effective date
of this act or one year after having been released from ser-
vice, whichever period expires last, and said person so filing
shall have the same rights and privileges to the issuance
of such renewal license, certificate, permit or other author-
ization as though his or her application therefor had been
filed by the time required.

Whenever any period of time is required for service as an
apprentice in, or in preparation for, any profession, trade
or calling, by any of said laws, ordinances, rules or regu-
lations, the applicant shall be entitled to credit thereon for
the length of time during which he performed work or
underwent training pertaining to said profession, trade or
calling while in the armed forces of the United States, upon
establishing proof thereof satisfactory to the appropriate
examining board, adduced by certificate, affidavit or other-
wise.

This Section shall be liberally construed.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act is
hereby declared to be an emergency law and necessary for
the immediate preservation of the public health and safety,
and being passed upon 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 March 24, 1945.

CHAPTER 310.
(Senate Bill 230)

AN ACT to add a new Article to the Annotated Code of
Maryland, said new Article to be known as Article 96 1/2,
to be titled "Veterans, " and to follow immediately after
Article 96 of said Code, defining Second World War
Veterans, and providing that laws applying to Veterans
of the First World War shall also apply to Second World
War Veterans,

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That a new Article be, and it is hereby added to the Anno-
tated Code of Maryland, said new Article to be known as
Article 961/2, to be titled "Veterans, " to follow immediately
after Article 96 of said Code, and to read as follows: