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The Commissioner or the person aggrieved may appeal from the
judgment of the court to the Court of Appeals.

SEC. 54. And be it further enacted, That Section 14 of Article 85A
of the Code, title "Sedition and Subversive Activities", sub-title
"Loyalty", be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amend-
ments, to read as follows:

14.

Reasonable grounds on all the evidence to believe that any person
is a subversive person, as defined in this article, shall be cause for
discharge from any appointive office or other position of profit or
trust in the government of or in the administration of the business
of this State, or of any county, municipality or other political sub-
division of this State, or any agency thereof. The State Commissioner
of Personnel and the civil service commission of Baltimore shall,
by appropriate rules or regulations, prescribe that persons charged
with being subversive persons, as defined in this article, shall
be accorded notice and opportunity to be heard, in accordance
with the procedures prescribed by law for discharges for other
reasons. Every person and every board, commission, council, de-
partment, or other agency of the State of Maryland or any political
subdivision thereof having responsibility for the appointment, em-
ployment or supervision of public employees not covered by the
classified service in this section referred to, shall establish rules or
procedures similar to those required herein for classified services
for a hearing for any person charged with being a subversive person,
as defined in this article, after notice and opportunity to be heard.
Every employing authority discharging any person pursuant to any
provision of this article shall promptly report to the special assistant
attorney general in charge of subversive activities the fact of and the
circumstances surrounding such discharge. A person discharged
under the provisions of this section shall have the right £ within
thirty days thereafter] to appeal to the circuit court of the county or to
the Baltimore City Court wherein such person may reside for a deter-
mination by such court (with the aid of a jury, if the appellant so
elects) as to whether or not the discharge appealed from was justi-
fied under the provisions of this article. The court shall speedily
hear and determine such appeals, and from the judgment of the
court, there shall be a further appeal to the Court of Appeals of
Maryland as in civil cases.

SEC. 55. And be it further enacted, that Section 26 of Article 88A
of the Code, title "State Department of Public Welfare", sub-title
"Child Care", be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with
amendments, to read as follows:

26.

Any institution, agency, society or person authorized to make
a placement who may be aggrieved by the decision of any agency
or local board delegated to issue licenses by the State Department
shall have the right of appeal to the State Department of Public
Welfare.

Any institution, agency, society or person authorized to make a
placement aggrieved by any decision of the State Department in