HERBERT R. O'CONOR, GOVERNOR. 437

tions for fire companies and providing appropriations for
certain payments to the Queen Anne-Hillsboro Fire Com-
pany.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 233A of Article 18 of the Code of Public
Local Laws of Maryland (1930 Edition), title "Queen Anne's
County", sub-title "Fire Companies", as said section was
amended by Chapter 129 of the Acts of 1941, be and it is hereby
repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

233A. The County Commissioners of Queen Anne's County
are hereby authorized and directed to appropriate annually
the sum of four thousand five hundred dollars ($4, 500. 00) for
the use and benefit of the organized fire companies of Queen
Anne's County and to levy on the taxable basis of said County
a tax sufficient to produce said four thousand five hundred
dollars ($4, 500. 00). The amount thus levied and appropriated
shall be used for the purchase, improvement, maintenance and
operation of fire apparatus and fire equipment for the said fire
companies and the said Commissioners shall, on or before
the fifteenth day of August each year pay the sum of one thou-
sand dollars ($1, 000. 00) to the Treasurer of the following fire
companies: Goodwill Fire Company, Inc., Centreville; Sudler-
ville Fire Company; Church Hill Community Fire Company;
Queenstown Volunteer Fire Company; and five hundred dol-
lars ($500. 00) to the Queen Anne Hillsboro Fire Company.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect June 1, 1945.

Approved March 29, 1945.

CHAPTER 454.

(Senate Bill 272)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section
56A of Article 1A of the Code of Public Local Laws of
Maryland (1930 Edition), title "City of Cumberland, "
sub-title ''Taxes, " as said section was enacted by Chapter
788 of the Acts of 1943, increasing the special tax to
be levied upon taxable property of Cumberland and
increasing the special payments or bonus for certain
employees of the City of Cumberland for the duration