12 LAWS OF MARYLAND [CH. 4

CHAPTER 4
(House Bill 17)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section
8 (35) (a) of Article 81 of the Annotated Code of Mary-
land (1951 Edition), title "Revenue and Taxes", sub-title
"Ordinary Taxes. What Shall be Taxed and Where",
as amended by Ch. 30 of the Acts of 1952, clarifying the
provisions of said section as to a tax exemption granted
to persons having a service-connected disability in the
form of total blindness.

WHEREAS, by Chapter 30 of the Acts of 1952, there was
an amendment to Section 8 (35) (a) of Article 81 of the
Code to provide a tax exemption on the dwelling house oc-
cupied by any blind person up to an assessed valuation of
$6, 000; and

WHEREAS, until the enactment of Chapter 30 of 1952,
veterans having a service-connected disability in the form
of total blindness had been granted a full tax exemption
on their dwelling houses; and

WHEREAS, by inadvertence in amending the bill which
became Chapter 30 of 1952, this full tax exemption for
blind veterans was stricken out, so that this section now
purports to give to such blind veterans only the limited
tax exemption accorded to blind civilians; and

WHEREAS, it was certainly not the legislative intent to
strike out the unrestricted tax exemption heretofore ac-
corded to blind veterans; and

WHEREAS, the title of Chapter 30 of 1952 makes no men-
tion of any such change as to blind veterans, thereby
raising considerable doubts as to whether this purported
change actually is effective; and

WHEREAS, the provisions of this section should be clari-
fied in order to remove any possible doubt as to the unre-
stricted tax exemption granted to veterans having a service-
connected disability in the form of total blindness; now
therefore

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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.