310 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 183
cuit Court for Baltimore County to retain a percentage of
liquor license fees collected by him, and providing in lieu
thereof, a charge by said Clerk of the sum of One Dollar
($1. 00) for the issuance of each such license.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That sub-section (e) entitled (Baltimore County) of
Section 51, entitled "Disposition of License Fees" of Article
2B of the 1947 Supplement to the Annotated Code of Mary-
land, be and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted,
with amendments, to read as follows:
51.
(e) (Baltimore County) In Baltimore County the Clerk of
the Circuit Court for said County shall retain the sum of One
Dollar ($1. 00) from each license fee collected by him, for the
issuance of each license, in lieu of commissions. The said Clerk
shall forthwith remit the remainder of such fees to the
County Commissioners of Baltimore County, who shall, out
of such remainder so received from said Clerk, pay all
salaries and expenses of the Board of License Commissioners
as determined by the Board of County Commissioners, and
devote the balance of said license fees, to the general pur-
poses of the County; and the phrase "the general purposes
of the County" in Baltimore County shall be construed so as
to include the general purposes of the Highways and/or the
general purposes of the Metropolitan District Department
of said County.
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 of Maryland, the same shall take
effect from the date of its passage.
Approved March 31, 1949.
CHAPTER 183
(House Bill 364)
AN ACT to authorize and empower the County Commissioners
of Baltimore County to expend from the general funds of
said County a sum not in excess of Twenty Thousand Dol-
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