Theodore R. McKeldin, Governor                  1425

ment), title "State Roads", sub-title "Construction In Several
Counties of the State", relating to percentage of variance in the
number of miles of road construction or improvement in the sev-
eral counties of this State, at the end of the several four program
years.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 162 D-l of Article 89B of the Annotated Code of Mary-
land (1956 Supplement), title "State Roads", sub-title "Construction
In Several Counties of the State", be and it is hereby repealed and
re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

162 D-l. The Commission shall, from the funds appropriated by
this Act, construct and/or improve in the several counties of the
State, the total number of miles of road as said road mileage is
totaled in the hereinafter described document, with the following
exceptions: (1) the said total mileage of construction and/or im-
provement shall be five per cent (5%) during said twelve year
period, and within ten percent (10%) during the first four program
years, the second four program years or the third four program
years, provided the total number of miles prescribed in the herein-
after described document shall be within the five percent (5%)
limitation, as said total number of miles is set forth for construction
and/or improvement. Provided, however, that in those counties in
which the percentage of variance is higher than the average per-
centage of variance among all the counties, at the end of the first
four program years, the second four program years, or the third
four program years, as the case may be, the Commission shall forth-
with revise its planned construction of road mileage so as promptly
to reduce the percentage of variance in those counties to a point not
higher than the average among all the counties. The document here-
inabove referred to is entitled "Road Construction and Reconstruc-
tion in the Proposed Twelve Year Program", and dated October 27,
1952, a copy of which document shall be signed on the front thereof
by the chairman of the State Roads Commission and shall be filed
with each of the following: "The Secretary of the State of Maryland,
the clerk of the Court of Appeals of Maryland, the Department of
Legislative Reference of Maryland, and the secretary of the State
Roads Commission of Maryland.

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

Approved April 15, 1957.

CHAPTER 782
(House Bill 558)

AN ACT to add new Sections 577 to 404 605, inclusive, to Article 43 of
the Annotated Code of Maryland, (1951 Edition), title "Health",

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.