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cause. Before the County Commissioners shall proceed to enforce
any rule, regulation or resolution, passed in pursuance of the pro-
visions of this section, advertisement of such rule, regulation or reso-
lution shall be made in some newspaper published in Allegany County
once each week for four (4) successive weeks, in order to provide
any person, firm or corporation adversely affected thereby an oppor-
tunity to be heard by the County Commissioners in opposition to the
adoption of such rule, regulation or resolution. The said Board of
County Commissioners are further authorized and empowered to
enter into a contract with the Animal Welfare Society of Allegany
County, Inc., or any other individual, association or corporation
specially qualified for the purposes hereinafter set forth, for the
establishment of a dog pound, and for the collection, disposition and
destruction of stray, injured and sick dogs. Notwithstanding the
provisions of Section 205 of Article 56 of the Annotated Code of
Maryland (1955 Supplement), said County Commissioners may in
their discretion use all or any part of the dog license tax for the
establishment of said pound, and for the collection or destruction of
said dogs.

(f) The Board of County Commissioners of Allegany County are
hereby authorized and empowered to appoint Dog Wardens and to
provide the compensation therefor, who shall have all the powers
of a constable or other peace officer, who may sell and issue dog
licenses, and take into custody and dispose of stray, injured and sick
dogs in accordance with rules, regulations or resolutions of the Board
of County Commissioners enacted pursuant to paragraph (e) hereof.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1957.

Approved April 10, 1957.

CHAPTER 724
(House Bill 925)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Chapter 680 of
the Laws of Maryland, 1955 Edition, to authorize the Maryland-
National Capital Park and Planning Commission to acquire lands
for park purposes outside the Maryland-Washington Metropolitan
District in Montgomery and Prince George's Counties but within
the Maryland-Washington Regional District in said Montgomery
and Prince George's Counties when such acquisitions are necessary
to preserve the Commission's regional park plans in said counties.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Chapter 680 of the Laws of Maryland, 1955 Edition, be re-
pealed, and the same is hereby re-enacted to read as follows: That
the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission

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.