THEODORE R. MCKELDIN, GOVERNOR 2063

Commission, one-fourth by the Maryland Jockey Club, one-
fourth by the Maryland State Fair, one-fourth by the South-
ern Maryland Agricultural Association, and one-fourth by
the Harford Agricultural and Breeders Association; and
the Commission may make grants from the Racing Fund,
as constituted on May 4th, 1945, to each of said four Rac-
ing Organizations, equally, in the manner and to the extent
hereinabove set forth, and, for the purposes of this section,
each shall be considered as having deducted from the mutuel
pool one-fourth of said Racing Fund as so constituted as agents
aforesaid. If, however, the Commission shall issue a license for
the conduct of racing to one of the said four Racing Organiza-
tions, for the purpose of enabling a joint meeting to be held in
which one or more of the others of the above-mentioned Racing
Organizations participate, the deductions made by the licensee
of said meeting shall be considered and treated as having been
made, for the purposes of this section, by each of said Racing
Organizations participating in said meeting, as agents afore-
said, in the proportion in which is ARE shared the profits and
losses of that particular meeting, and the Racing Commission
may make grants from the Racing Fund to the Racing Organ-
ization considered and treated herein as having made such
deduction, in the manner and to the extent hereinabove set
forth.

SEC. 3. 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 May 7, 1951.

CHAPTER 707
(House Bill 629)

AN ACT to add two new sections to Higinbotham's Code of
Harford County (1942 Edition), being Article 13 of the Code
of Public Local Laws of Maryland, title "Harford County",

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EXPLANATION: Italics indicate new matter added to existing law.

[Brackets] indicate matter stricken from existing law.

CAPITALS indicate amendments to bill.

Strike out indicates matter stricken out of bill.