J. MILLARD TAWES, GOVERNOR                             237

title "Natural Resources", sub-title "State Game Refuges and
Hunting Grounds", providing for the acquisition of land or water
by the Game and Inland Fish Commission of Maryland.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 188 of Article 66C of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1957 Edition), title "Natural Resources", sub-title "State Game
Refuges and Hunting Grounds", be and it is hereby repealed and
re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

188.

The title to any land or water acquired by purchase, gift, or
condemnation shall be taken in the name of the State of Maryland
for use of the Game and Inland Fish Commission of Maryland. The
entire control of such land and water shall be under the direction of
this State with the approval of the Commission.

[No land or water shall be purchased at a price to exceed five
dollars ($5.00) per acre except where buildings or cultivated lands
deemed necessary to the proper maintenance and administration of
game refuges or for game and fish propagation are included.] The
Director, with the approval of the Commission, may expend for the
purchase, or condemnation of lands and waters during any year such
amount from the State Game Protection Fund as in his opinion can
be alloted to that purpose, or as may be necessary. [The limita-
tion of five dollars ($5.00) an acre shall not apply to land or water
acquired by condemnation.]

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1959.

Approved March 11, 1959.

CHAPTER 185
(House Bill 130)

AN ACT to repeal Sections 226 to 228, inclusive, AND 227 and to add
new Sections 257 to 266, inclusive, to follow immediately after
Section 256 thereof, and to be under the new sub-title "Department
of Economic Development", to Article 41 of the Annotated Code of
Maryland (1957 Edition), title "Governor—Executive and Admin-
istrative Departments", sub-title "Department of Information",
abolishing the Department of Information and relating to economic
development in the State, creating the Commission and Depart-
ment of Economic Development, providing for its powers and
duties, and relating generally to economic development in the
State.

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.