WM. PRESTON LANE, JR., GOVERNOR. 1957

days of the year, there are thirty-four Sundays. This elimi-
nates a total of a hundred and fifty-five days in the considera-
tion of a racing schedule, leaving a total of two hundred and
ten days. It is not feasible for the Racing Commission to
arrange a two hundred and eighty day schedule of racing
(one hundred and twenty days at mile tracks; one hundred
days of harness racing and sixty days of half-mile racing)
with a two hundred and ten-day period and give full effect to
the need of avoiding, in so far as is possible, conflict with the
competitive operation of race tracks in nearby New Jersey,
Delaware and West Virginia.

Since the passage of these Bills, the Racing Commission has
advised me of indications from the operators of the mile tracks
that they are agreeable to an effort to work out the problem of
avoiding out-of-State competition and its impairment of
patronage through a rearrangement of schedules, possibly
eliminating the split meets and the running at one meet of the
full allowance of racing days for each track.

In consideration of the overall situation as it now presents
itself, and because it now appears unnecessary from the
standpoint of State revenues to have an additional twenty days
of mile-track racing, I will not sign Senate Bill No. 310.

Since the bills to add additional days to the half-mile
schedule and increase the day allowance to harness tracks
present the same complications with respect to the assignment
of dates, with only a fraction of the return from mile-track
racing, I have vetoed Senate Bill No. 256 and Senate Bill
No. 388.

REAL ESTATE BROKERS
HOUSE BILL No. 563

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Sub-sec-
tion (c) of Section 348 of Article 56 of the Annotated
Code of Maryland (1947 Supplement), title "Licenses",
sub-title "Real Estate Brokers", and to add a new sub-
section to Section 355 of said Article, said new sub-section
to be known as Sub-section (r) and to follow immediately
after Sub-section (q) of said section, relating to the quali-
fications for licenses of real estate brokers and real estate
salesmen, and the suspension or revocation of licenses.

The enacting clause of this Bill is defective in that it neither
repeals, repeals and re-enact, with amendments existing law,
nor enacts a new section of law; and I am, therefore, vetoing it.