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(d) Authority and duties of State Treasurer. —The Treasurer of
the State shall be ex-officio treasurer and custodian of the Contri-
bution and Expense funds and shall administer such funds in ac-
cordance with the provisions of this sub-title, and at the direction of
the State Agency shall pay all vouchers drawn upon them in accord-
ance with the provisions of this section and with such regulations
as the State Agency may prescribe pursuant thereto.

(e) Expense fund established; of what monies composed; pay-
ments from fund. —There is hereby established a special fund to be
known as the Expense Fund. Such fund shall consist of and there
shall be deposited in such fund all monies received from political sub-
divisions as their prorata share of expense under sec. 39 (d) (3);
and interest earned under Section 40 (a) and (b). From said fund,
payments shall be made by the State Treasurer or by the deputy
treasurer only upon vouchers signed by two persons designated by
the board of trustees in such amounts and at such time or times as
may be directed by the State Agency as may be incurred as an ex-
pense by the State Agency in the administration of this sub-title.

(f) Transfer of monies from Contribution Fund to Expense
Fund. —At the time the amendment to sec. 40 to provide for a sepa-
rate Expense Fund becomes effective the State Agency is authorized
to transfer any expense monies then in the Contribution Fund to the
Expense Fund.

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

Approved March 2, 1960.

CHAPTER 39
(House Bill 80)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Sections 417 and
418 of Article 27 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1957 Edi-
tion), title "Crimes and Punishments", sub-title "Obscene and
Other Objectionable Publications", sub-heading "Obscene Pub-
lications", relating to conviction of persons knowingly engaged in
publication, sale and exhibition of obscene or licentious matter.

WHEREAS, The Supreme Court of the United States has held in
Smith vs. People of the State of California, 4 L. Ed. 2d 205, that
an ordinance making it unlawful for any person to have in his pos-
session any obscene or indecent book in any place where books are

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.