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the provisions of this section shall be paid for the period of her
natural life unless she remarries, in which event the special allow-
ance is immediately to cease and terminate. The Board of Trustees
is hereby authorized and directed, subject to the annual appropriation
of the necessary funds, to make the special allowance herein provided
for, provided that the application of this Section shall be limited to the
widows of teachers whose death did not entitle such widows to any
continuing retirement or pension benefits under the provisions of
this sub-title other than as provided in this section.

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

Approved April 17, 1963.

CHAPTER 316
(Senate Bill 270)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 6A of
Article 62B of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1962 Supple-
ment), title "Maryland Port Authority", authorizing any munici-
pality or county in this State to contract With the Maryland Port
Authority for the construction, acquisition, extension, enlargement
or improvement of port facilities within its boundaries, and to
incur certain indebtedness not to exceed the sum of $500,000.00 in
connection therewith, and to operate and maintain such port facili-
ties in conjunction with the Maryland Port Authority and ratify-
ing and validating any contract or act authorized under the terms
hereof but entered into or performed prior to the effective date of
this Act.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 6A of Article 62B of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1962 Supplement), title "Maryland Port Authority", be and it is
hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

6A. (a) Any municipal corporation or county within the State
may by ordinance or resolution duly passed make application to the
Authority for the construction, acquisition, extension, enlargement
or improvement within its boundaries of port facilities, as herein de-
fined in Section 4(g) of this Article; and for the purposes of this
Section 6A the territorial jurisdiction of the Authority shall not be
limited as provided in Section 2 or elsewhere in this Article, but
shall extend to, and include, any municipal corporation or county
in this State. Upon approval by the Authority of such application,
provided the same, in the sole determination of the Authority, is in
furtherance of the purposes of this Article, any such municipal cor-
poration or county so applying to the Authority may contract there-
with, and be fully bound, thereon, for any of the purposes aforesaid,
and may pursuant to such contract incur indebtedness to the Au-
thority, but not otherwise, of an amount not exceeding [$250,000]
$500,000 in the aggregate at any one time; provided, however, that
the contract between the Authority and any such municipal corpor-
ation or county, pursuant to which such indebtedness has been in-