456 LAWS OF MARYLAND [CH. 181

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Chapter 32 of the Laws of Maryland passed at the
Extraordinary Session of the General Assembly in 1947,
be and it is hereby repealed, and that four new sections of
Article 19 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland
(1930 Edition), title "St. Mary's County", to be under
sub-title "Licenses", known as Sections 93A to 93D, inclu-
sive, and to follow immediately after Section 93 of said
Article, be and they are hereby enacted in lieu thereof, to
read as follows:

LICENSES

93A. Nothing contained in Article 27, Sections 288 to
307, inclusive, of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1939
Edition), title "Crimes and Punishments", sub-title "Gam-
ing", shall be construed as prohibiting, penalizing or mak-
ing unlawful the keeping, maintenance, operation or dis-
tribution for operation, in St. Mary's County, by any per-
son, firm or corporation, on and after December 9, 1947,
of any mechanical or electrical amusement devices which
require the insertion of a coin or token for their operation
and AN which offer an award to the operator based in whole
or in part upon chance or his skill, provided that said
mechanical or electrical amusement devices or machines
are licensed by the person, firm or corporation who owns
or operates the premises upon which said amusement
devices are maintained for the use of the public as here-
inafter provided in this sub-title. Provided, however, that
any bona fide charitable or veterans' organization and any
bona fide fire company may own and operate not more
than five such devices for which no license fee shall be
required where all the proceeds of such devices are devoted
to the exclusive benefit of such organization or company
and such devices are maintained solely in the club room or
regular meeting place of such organization or company.
And provided further, that any bona fide religious or vol-
unteer firemen's organization may operate on not more
than two dates in any calendar year up to ten such devices
without license at any carnival or social where the pro-
ceeds of such devices are devoted to the exclusive benefit
of such organization.

93B. The County Commissioners of St. Mary's County
are authorized to impose upon such of the machines and
devices described in Section 93A as they shall designate
a gross-receipts tax in such amount as they shall prescribe
upon the total income received from the operation of such
machines and devices. The said County Commissioners