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license fees required by this Article, pay a fee of fifteen
cents for the services rendered by the County Treasurer in
connection with such registration, this fee to be deducted
each week before remitting to the said Commissioner of
Motor Vehicles. Each of the County Treasurers so directed
to issue tags shall first provide to the State of Maryland a
bond in such form and in such amount as prescribed by
the Comptroller.

The Commissioner of Motor Vehicles shall furnish each
County Treasurer all the necessary forms or blanks, in-
cluding reports, as well as all metal plates or markers, and
all stationery necessary to enable the said County Treas-
urer to perform the duties herein set forth; but each
County Treasurer shall pay for any additional clerks occa-
sioned in performing these duties out of the fees payable
to him. The provisions of this Section shall not apply to
Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Harford, Howard and Prince
George's Counties.

The following counties shall leave the decision as to
whether or not this Section shall apply to the Board of
County Commissioners of the respective counties by ap-
propriate resolution: Allegany, Carroll, Dorchester, Fred-
erick, Garrett, Worcester, Washington and Wicomico.

SEC. 2. And be it. further enacted, That this Act is
hereby declared to be an emergency measure and necessary
for the immediate preservation of the public health and
safety and having been passed by a yea and nay vote,
supported by three-fifths of all of 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 February 9, 1945.

CHAPTER 91.
(House Bill 149)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 33
of Article 43 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1939
Edition), title "Health", sub-title "Miscellaneous Pro-
visions", and to add a new section to said Article, to be
known as Section 44A of said Article, to follow immediately
after Section 44 of said Article, providing for the estab-
lishment of a Bureau of Medical Services for indigent and
medically indigent persons, or either of such classes; au-
thorizing the said Bureau to conduct and operate hospitals
for the care and treatment of persons suffering from chronic