THEODORE R. McKELDIN, GOVERNOR                    457

title "Insurance", sub-title "Fireworks", exempting from certain
provisions as to fireworks, the possession or use of fireworks by
farmers for the control of destructive migratory birds UNDER
A PERMIT TO BE ISSUED BY THE INSURANCE COMMIS-
SIONER.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 101 of Article 48A of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1951 Edition), title "Insurance", sub-title "Fireworks", be and it
is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as
follows:

101. Nothing in this sub-title shall apply to the sale to, possession
of, or use of fireworks by the Federal, State or municipal govern-
ments, nor to the sale to, possession of or use of combustibles or
explosive preparations required by industrial or commercial concerns
for use as signals or otherwise in the normal course of their business;
nor to the use of flares, signal pistols and other equipment when the
same are to be used as signals in athletic contests or for similar
purposes; nor to the SALE TO, possession or use by farmers of
explosive devices or preparations known as firecrackers, salutes or
cherry bombs, for use with a slow-burning fuse rope, in the control
of destructive migratory birds , UNDER AND SUBJECT TO THE
TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF A PERMIT ISSUED BY THE
INSURANCE COMMISSIONER, AND THE SAID COMMIS-
SIONER IS HEREBY AUTHORIZED TO GRANT NON-TRANS-
FERABLE SPECIAL PERMITS FOR THAT PURPOSE.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1955.

Approved April 11, 1955.

CHAPTER 290
(Senate Bill 365)

AN ACT to add new Section 8(40) to Article 81 of the Annotated
Code of Maryland (1951 Edition and 1954 Supplement), title
"Revenue and Taxes", sub-title "What Shall Be Taxed and Where",
said new section to follow immediately after Section 8(39) thereof,
exempting from county assessment and taxation in Wicomico
County certain livestock not being held for a longer period than
six months, commonly known as "feeder" stock.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That new Section 8(40) be and it is hereby added to Article 81 of the
Annotated Code of Maryland (1951 Edition and 1954 Supplement),
title "Revenue and Taxes", sub-title "What Shall Be Taxed and
Where", said new section to follow immediately after Section 8(39)
thereof, and to read as follows:

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.