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Education", sub-title "Chapter 4. County Board of Education",
said sub-section to be known as Section 53 (e), authorizing the
Board of Education of Howard County to secure legal services
under certain conditions, providing for the payment of such serv-
ices and authorizing the County Commissioners of Howard County
to levy a sum for such payment.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That a new sub-section to Sub-section 53 of Article 77 of the Anno-
tated Code of Maryland (1951 Edition), title "Public Education",
sub-title "Chapter 4. County Board of Education", said sub-section
to be known as Section 53 (e), and to read as follows:

53.

(e) The Board of Education of Howard County is authorized and
empowered, subject to the limitations hereinafter set forth, to secure
the services of attorneys at law to represent it in all legal matters
affecting said Board and to contract for the payment of the fees of
such attorneys in an aggregate amount not to exceed five hundred
dollars ($500.00) annually. The Board of Education of Howard
County is further authorized and empowered, with the consent of
the County Commissioners of Howard County, to contract for the
payment of fees for such legal services over and above the aforesaid
annual sum of five hundred dollars ($500.00). When and as such
fees shall become due and payable said Board of Education shall
certify the same to the County Commissioners of Howard County
for payment. Said County Commissioners are authorized and di-
rected to pay such fees which shall have been contracted for and
certified as hereinbefore provided and are further authorized to levy
annually upon the assessable property of Howard County a sum
sufficient to pay the aggregate of such fees.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act is hereby declared
to be an emergency measure and necessary for the immediate preser-
vation of the public health and safety, and having been passed by a
yea and nay vote, supported by three-fifths of all the members elected
to each of the two Houses of the General Assembly of Maryland, the
same shall take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved March 25, 1957.

CHAPTER 353
(House Bill 672)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Sections 395 and
397 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Cecil County (1953 Edi-
tion), being Article 8 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Mary-
land, title "Cecil County", sub-title "Sanitary Districts", said sec-

Explanation: Italics indicate new matter added to existing law.

[Brackets] indicate matter stricken from existing law.
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Strike out indicates matter stricken out of bill.