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written receipts shall be over the hand or hands of the authorized of-
ficer or agents of the respective two donees and which written receipt
shall clearly show and acknowledge the receipt of each by the respec-
tive donees of the assets, properties, holdings, credits or funds which
each shall have received as a transfer and gift, as hereinbefore pro-
vided for.

Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That it shall not be necessary

in carrying out the provisions and terms of this Act, to give any
newspaper or any publication of a notice to creditors or of Articles
of Dissolution, or the filing of the same, which filing of Articles of
Dissolution is hereby dispensed with, nor shall it be necessary to
give newspaper or any other form of publication of a Notice of In-
tention to dissolve the corporation or of the fact of dissolution.

Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1957.

Approved April 15, 1957.

CHAPTER 800
(House Bill 758)

AN ACT to add Section 23A to Article 64A of the Annotated Code of
Maryland (1951 Edition), title "Merit System", to follow imme-
diately after Section 23 thereof, providing for the creditable service
to be given to certain members of the State Merit System who have
formerly been employees of county and/or MUNICIPAL health de-
partments in this State.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That new Section 23A be and it is hereby added to Article 64A of
the Annotated Code of Maryland (1951 Edition), title "Merit
System", to follow immediately after Section 23 thereof, and to read
as follows:

23 A. All county and/or municipal employees of county and/or
municipal health departments in this State who were so employed on
June 30, 1956, and who may be appointed under the State Merit
System on or before July 1, 1961, having been classified by the Com-
missioner of Personnel as to proper job classification and having
qualified for the same in a non-competitive examination to be con-
ducted by the Commissioner, shall be given credit under the State
Merit System for the years of service rendered in said county and/or
municipal health departments for the purposes of establishing com-
pensation rates and the basic rates for vacation and sick leave credit
earnings. No such employee who has transferred from a county
and/or municipal health department to the State Merit System shall

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.