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been last amended by Chapter 37 of the Acts of 1941, be and they are
hereby repealed and reenacted with amendments to read as follows:

79.   The County Commissioners of Worcester County are hereby
authorized, empowered and directed to levy annually, at the time for
making their regular levy for county taxes, a special tax of [two]
three cents on each one hundred dollars of assessable property in
said Worcester County, the funds so raised to be distributed and
expended by the said County Commissioners of Worcester County for
the assistance, maintenance and support of the various incorporated
volunteer fire companies in said Worcester County as hereinafter
more particularly set forth.

80.   The funds so raised by the levy of taxes as aforesaid shall be
distributed and expended by the County Commissioners of Worcester
County [in the manner following, that is to say: Three-fourths of
the said funds so raised shall be equally divided among the incorpo-
rated volunteer fire companies in the towns of Ocean City, Berlin,
Newark, Snow Hill, Stockton, Bishopville and Pocomoke City and
shall be paid to said companies on or before the first day of February
next succeeding the date on which said taxes shall be levied; the
remaining one-fourth of the funds so raised by taxation as aforesaid
shall be expended by the said County Commissioners of Worcester
County in their discretion in the assistance, maintenance and support
of any volunteer fire company or companies in said Worcester County
which shall organize and incorporate subsequent to March 1st, 1939,
provided, however, that any of the funds levied and raised under this
Act which may remain unexpended in the hands of the said County
Commissioners on the last day of the fiscal year for which said taxes
shall have been levied shall be distributed by the said County Com-
missioners equally among all of the incorporated volunteer fire com-
panies in said Worcester County.] among the nine incorporated vol-
unteer fire companies in the towns of Pocomoke City, Stockton, Girdle-
tree, Snow Hill, Newark, Berlin, Ocean City, Showell and Bishopville,
in as nearly as may be computed an equal sum for each. Such pay-
ments shall be made to the volunteer fire companies specified on or
before the first day of February next succeeding the date on which
taxes therefore shall be levied.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1961.

Approved February 27, 1961.

CHAPTER 52
(Senate Bill 119)

AN ACT to repeal and reenact with amendments Section 85 of Article
24 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland (1930 Edition),

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.