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(1955 Supplement), title "Revenue and Taxes", sub-title "Income
Tax", relating to the application of the optional tax tables.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Sub-section (e) of Section 285 of Article 81 of the Annotated
Code of Maryland (1955 Supplement), title "Revenue and Taxes",
sub-title "Income Tax", be and the same is hereby repealed and
re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

285.

(e) In applying the schedules in Sub-sections (b) and (d) of
this section, to determine the tax of a taxpayer with one or more
dependents, there shall be subtracted from his gross income begin-
ning with the calendar year 1949 and ending with the calendar year

1954,   Six Hundred ($600.00) for each dependent, as defined in
Section 281 (b) of this sub-title. In applying the schedule in Sub-
section [(d)] (d-2) of this section to determine the tax of a tax-
payer with more than two dependents or exemptions, there shall be
subtracted from his gross income beginning with the calendar year

1955,   Eight Hundred Dollars ($800.00) for each dependent, as
defined in Section 281 (b) of this sub-title, provided that the Comp-
troller is authorized and empowered to extend such schedule to
include additional dependents and exemptions so as to eliminate the
necessity of making such subtraction.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1956.

Approved March 2, 1956.

CHAPTER 63
(Senate Bill' 118)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 5 of
Chapter 45 of the Acts of 1954, said Act being the State Bond
Construction Bill enacted at the 1954 Session of the General As-
sembly and being amended in order to change the purpose for
which Morgan State College may expend one appropriation item
contained therein.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 5 of Chapter 45 of the Acts of 1954 be and it is hereby
repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

5. The actual cash proceeds of the sale of the Certificates of
Indebtedness to be issued under this Act shall be paid to the Treas-
urer of the State upon the warrant of the Comptroller and such
proceeds shall be used exclusively for the following purposes, to wit:

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.