104 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 86

ployees not covered by the classified service in this section
referred to, shall establish rules or procedures similar to
those required herein for classified services for a hearing
for any person charged with being a subversive person, as
defined in this Article, after notice and opportunity to be
heard. Every employing authority discharging any person
pursuant to any provision of this Article shall promptly re-
port to the Special Assistant Attorney General in charge
of subversive activities the fact of and the circumstances
surrounding such discharge. A person discharged under the
provisions of this section shall have the right within thirty
days thereafter to appeal to the Circuit Court of the county
or to the Baltimore City Court wherein such person may
reside for a determination by such Court (with the aid of a
jury, if the appellant so elects) as to whether or not the
discharge appealed from was justified under the provisions
of this Act. The Court shall speedily hear and determine
such appeals, and from the judgment of the Court, there
shall be a further appeal to the Court of Appeals of Mary-
land as in civil cases.

15. No person shall become a candidate for election under
the provisions of Article 33 of the Annotated Code of Mary-
land to any public office whatsoever in this State, unless
he or she shall file with the certificate of nomination required
by the foregoing Article, an affidavit that he or she is not a
subversive person as defined in this Article; provided that,
in the case of certificates of nomination for President or
Vice President of the United States, the affidavit may be
made on behalf of such candidates by those persons who file
the certificate of nomination for such candidates. No certifi-
cate of nomination shall be received for filing by any Board
of Supervisors of Elections or by the Secretary of State of
Maryland unless accompanied by the affidavit aforesaid, and
there shall not be entered upon any ballot or voting machine
at any election the name of any person who has failed or
refused to make the affidavit aforesaid.

16. Before any appropriation of public funds of any
character shall be made by the State of Maryland to any
private institution of learning, there shall be filed with the
Governor, the President of the Senate and the Speaker of
the House of Delegates, on behalf of said institution, a writ-
ten report setting forth what procedures it has adopted to
determine whether it has reasonable grounds to believe that
any subversive persons are in its employ, and what steps,
if any, have been or are being taken to terminate such em-
ployment. In the absence of such a report no appropriation