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not have the power to change the fiscal year for any such city or
town.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 35 of Article 19 of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1951 Edition), title "Comptroller", sub-title "Uniform System of
Accounts", be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amend-
ments, to read as follows:

35. Each county, incorporated city or town, and taxing district
situated within this State shall, on or before June 30, 1948, adopt as
the period for reporting all of its fiscal transactions, either the
calendar year or a period beginning with the first of July and ending
with the thirtieth of June. The choice of each fiscal period as herein-
above stated shall be at the option of each county, incorporated city
or town and taxing district selecting the same, provided, however,
that no such county, incorporated city or town or taxing district may
change from one fiscal period to another after it has once made its
selection as provided in this section without the written consent of
the State Comptroller. Each county, incorporated city or town and
taxing district adopting a fiscal period as provided in this section
shall thereafter keep and maintain its books, records, journals, and
fiscal reports by such method or methods as will permit the division
of all data, statistics, and financial information contained therein into
half-yearly periods. Every incorporated city or town which is first
created as such after January 1, 1955, shall use the period beginning
with the first of July and ending with the thirtieth of June, for re-
porting all of its fiscal transactions; and the State Comptroller shall
not have the power to change the fiscal year for any such city or town.

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

Approved January 29, 1955.

CHAPTER 5
(House Bill 18)

AN ACT to add Section 11A to Article 30 of the Annotated Code of
Maryland (1951 Edition), title "Deaf, Dumb, and Blind, " sub-title
"Workshop and School for the Blind, " said new section to follow
immediately after Section 11 thereof, authorizing the Maryland
Workshop for the Blind to make contracts or agreements with the
owners or lessees of privately-owned buildings or premises for the
operation of a vending stand to be licensed by the Workshop, and
relating generally to the location and operation of such vending
stands.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 11A be and it is hereby added to Article 30 of the Anno-

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