THEODORE R. MCKELDIN, GOVERNOR 79

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 140 of Article 8 of the Code of Public Local
Laws of Maryland (1930 Edition), title "Cecil County",
sub-title "County Commissioners", be and it is hereby
repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as
follows:

140. The County Commissioners [shall levy annually
the amount required to pay the interest on the bonds issued
under the Act of 1886, Chapter 240, and also the amount
necessary to redeem said bonds as they shall mature; and
the said bonds shall be exempt from, taxation for county
and municipal purposes, and said Commissioners are for-
bidden to apply any portion of the taxes so levied to any
other purpose; nor shall they, in any year hereafter, ]
except when extraordinary circumstances may require it to
be done, may not exceed in their expenditures for all county
purposes the amount levied for said year; and when an
emergency may compel the creation of a deficiency, the
same shall be plainly shown in the annual statement of
county expenses, and be levied for in the first levy made
after its creation.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall
take effect June 1, 1953.

Approved March 9, 1953.

CHAPTER 40
(Senate Bill 79)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section
328 of Article 8 of the Code of Public Local Laws of
Maryland (1930 Edition), title "Cecil County", subtitle
"Perryville", eliminating from said section an obsolete
provision restricting the right to vote to male citizens.

WHEREAS, Article 19 of the Constitution of the United
States provides that the right of citizens to vote shall not
be abridged on account of sex, thereby making obsolete

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