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Association, Inc. and Baltimore Trotting Races, Inc. while con-
ducting racing at mile tracks, racing licensees, payments to the
Maryland State Fair Board out of revenue from racing, PRO-
HIBITING LICENSEES FROM CONVEYING, ASSIGNING, OR
TRANSFERRING, THEIR RACING DATES TO OTHERS, OR
ATTEMPTING SO TO DO, and relating to racing in the Stater
; AND PROVIDING THAT THE PROVISIONS OF THIS ACT
SHALL BE SEVERABLE.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Sections 5(a), 7(b), 7(c), 7(d), 9, 15(A), 16(a) , 17(B) and
19(A) (3), be and they are hereby repealed and re-enacted, with
amendments, and that new Section 18B AND NEW SECTION 28
to follow immediately after Section 18A, AND AFTER SECTION
27, RESPECTIVELY, be and it is THEY ARE hereby added to
Article 78B of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1957 Edition and
1962 Supplement), title "Racing Commission", sub-title "In General",
and to read as follows:

5.

(a)   The salaries of the Commission, of its secretary and of its
stenographers and clerks shall be as in the budget provided. In ad-
dition to the employees of the Commission, whose salaries are pro-
vided for in the budget, the Commission is authorized to employ at
reasonable compensation, a reasonable number of inspectors, guards,
experts, scientists, auditors, veterinarians, and other employees or
agents deemed by the Commission to be essential at or in connection
with any race meeting to the best interests of racing (hereinafter
referred to as "additional employees,") and is further authorized to
maintain a testing laboratory and to purchase supplies and equipment
for and in connection with such laboratory or other tests or testing
processes. The expenses of such laboratory or other testing process
and of the supplies and equipment needed in connection with either
shall be paid by all licensees licensed in any calendar year under this
article in the ratio which the number of days of racing conducted by
such licensee bears to the whole number of days of licensed racing,
with betting privileges, held in this State during such year. The
compensation of such additional employees shall be paid by the
licensee of the race meeting in connection with which they are uti-
lized or employed. Each licensee as a condition precedent to the
privilege of receiving a license under this article shall be deemed to
have agreed that it will pay such expenses and compensation; pro-
vided, however, that no licensee licensed under the provisions of
Section 7 or Section 15 of this article shall be asked or required to
pay more under this sub-section than [thirty-five thousand dollars
($35,000) in any calendar year] one thousand dollars ($1,000) per
day of racing as awarded by the Racing Commission [and that no li-
censee licensed under the provisions of Section 15 of this article shall
be asked or required to pay more under this subsection than ten
thousand dollars ($10,000) in any calendar year] and that no li-
censee licensed under the provisions of Section 17 of this article
authorized to carry on betting shall be asked or required to pay more
under this subsection than the actual reasonable amount of such ex-
pense and compensation.

7.

(b)   Said Racing Commission shall, as soon as practicable during