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whose purpose it shall be to promote understanding and harmony of
relationship between the people of the county through the study of
the nature and all causes of social friction and prejudice and the
advancement of means for the alleviation of these problems, and to
otherwise further the American ideal of equality and justice. The
Commission shall use its influence and persuasion to direct the
community's efforts to the solution of all those problems which many
times are the basic reasons for racial tensions; the Commission shall
have no legal power.

(b)   There shall be eleven (11) members of the Commission who
shall be elected SELECTED in the following manner: a representa-
tive of the Catholic Clergy of St. Mary's County, to be designated by
the Director; a representative of the Ministerial Association of St.
Mary's County, to be designated by that association; a representative
of the Board of Education of St. Mary's County, to be designated by
that board; a representative of the St. Mary's County Bar Associ-
ation, to be designated by that association; four representative citizens
of the county to be appointed by the County Commissioners of St.
Mary's County; three representative citizens of the county, one to be
appointed by each elected representative of St. Mary's County in the
General Assembly of Maryland. THE COMMISSION SHALL BE
BI-RACIAL IN COMPOSITION AND THE SELECTING GROUPS
AND ORGANIZATIONS SHALL GIVE CONSIDERATION TO
THIS FACTOR IN SELECTING THEIR REPRESENTATIVES
TO SERVE ON THE COMMISSION. The members of the Commis-
sion SHALL SERVE FOR TERMS OF FOUR YEARS EACH
FROM JUNE 1, 1963, AND shall serve without compensation, and
the Commission shall file with the County Commissioners no less
than annually a comprehensive report covering its activities.

(c)   The County Commissioners are authorized to provide all
administrative support to the Commission necessary to properly
effectuate the provisions of this section, and to annually appropriate
to this end an amount not exceeding two hundred dollars ($200.00).

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1963.

Approved April 30, 1963.

CHAPTER 573
(Senate Bill 617)

AN ACT to add a new Section 82C to the Code of Public Local Laws
of Allegany County (1955 Edition, being Article 1 of the Code of
Public Local Laws of Maryland), title "Allegany County", sub-
title "County Commissioners", to follow immediately after Section
82B thereof, as said Section was enacted by Chapter 132 of the
Acts of 1961, relating to Administrative Boards of the said county
and providing that no attorney shall appear before any such boards
in such county if any member of such Board is a partner or as-
sociate of such attorney.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,