1180 LAWS OF MARYLAND [CH. 410

ARTICLE 14. This compact shall be construed to effectuate
the purposes stated in Article 1 hereof. If any provision of
this compact is declared unconstitutional, or the applicability
thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the
constitutionality of the remainder of this compact and the
applicability thereof to other persons and circumstances shall
not be affected thereby; now, therefore,

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the Governor is hereby authorized and empowered-
to enter into and execute, on behalf of the State of Maryland,
such civil defense compacts with other States, possessions or
territories of the United States or with the District of Colum-
bia, substantially in the form hereinbefore set forth, provided
that the Board of Public Works, with the concurrence of the
Director of Civil Defense, may approve alterations of the
terms, provisions and conditions of the aforesaid proposed civil
defense compact so long as said alterations are in substantial
compliance with the terms, provisions and conditions herein-
before set forth and when the Governor, in the exercise of the
power as aforesaid, enters into and executes a civil defense
compact on behalf of the State of Maryland, said compact is
hereby approved and ratified and every paragraph, clause, pro-
vision, matter and thing in the said compact contained shall
be obligatory on this State and the citizens thereof, and shall
be forever faithfully and inviolably observed, and kept by the
government of this State and all of its citizens according to the
true intent and meaning of the said compact.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of
State is authorized and directed to prepare and transmit duly
authenticated copies of such compacts and of this Act to the
Governor of each State entering into such compacts, the Presi-
dent of the United States, the President of the United States
Senate, the Speaker of the United States House of Representa-
tives, the Federal Civil Defense Administrator, the Secretary
of State of the United States, and the Council of State Govern-
ments.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That if any clause, sen-
tence, paragraph, or section of this sub-title shall, for any
reason, be adjudged by any court of competent jurisdiction to
be unconstitutional and invalid, such judgment shall not affect,
impair or invalidate the remainder thereof, but shall be con-
fined in its operation to the clause, sentence, paragraph, or
section thereof so found unconstitutional and invalid.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That this Act is hereby
declared to be an emergency measure and necessary for the