J. MILLARD TAWES, Governor                      589

nineteen hundred and [forty-three (1943)] sixty-three (1963)
[and on or before the first day of March of each year thereafter],
award all dates for racing in the State of Maryland within the cur-
rent year, and shall, on or before December 1 of nineteen hundred
and sixty-three (1963) and on or before December 1 of each year
thereafter, award all dates for racing for the ensuing year, [but the]
The said dates so awarded shall not exceed one hundred and twenty
(120) days in the aggregate, and the decision of the Commission on
the award of all such dates shall be final.

(c)   The Commission shall have the power to reject any applica-
tion for a license for any cause which it may deem sufficient and the
action of the Commission shall be final. No one person, corporation
or association shall be given a license to conduct racing for more
than [fifty-four (54)] seventy-eight (78) days in one year, nor shall
more than an aggregate of [seventy-two (72)] one hundred and
four (104.) days of racing be held in any one year on any one track
within the State of Maryland.

(d)  The said Racing Commission may, at any time or times, in its
discretion, authorize any person, corporation or association to trans-
fer its racing meet or meetings from its own track, or place for hold-
ing races, to the track, or place for holding races, of any other per-
son, corporation or association now conducting racing in the State
of Maryland upon payment of any and all appropriate license fees
for the conduct of racing at the particular track, or place for holding
races, on which the racing is to be conducted; provided, however,
that no such authority to transfer shall be granted without the ex-
press consent of the person, corporation or association owning or
leasing the track to which such transfer is made, but nothing in this
section shall affect in any manner the license fees, requirements,
rights, conditions, terms and provisions of Section 8 of this article;
provided, further, that the Commission shall issue no license nor
award any dates for racing on any tracks or places for holding races
in Maryland, unless on such tracks or places for holding races, races
have been run or held at least once in every year for a period of
three consecutive years immediately prior to May 6, 1943, it being
the intent, purpose and effect of this section to insure that no new
or additional tracks or places for holding or conducting races shall
be licensed or awarded dates; provided, however, that if the Mary-
land Jockey Club, the Southern Maryland Agricultural Association,
or the [Maryland State Fair, Inc.,] Laurel Race Course, Inc., respec-
tively, shall permanently abandon for racing purposes the Pimlico
Track, the Bowie Track, or the Laurel Track, the association so
abandoning the track at which it has heretofore regularly conducted
race meetings under the authority of this article and this section
may be licensed and awarded dates for the holding or conducting of
races or race meetings at a new track location in the State? AP-
PROVED BY LEGISLATIVE ENACTMENT.

9.

Said Commission may in its discretion meet subsequent to the
first day of [March] December and award dates for racing within
the limits hereinbefore provided on applications submitted to it,
provided that the days so awarded in no way conflict with the
further provisions of this article; and provided, further, that no
license for a race meeting shall issue prior to the payment of the
fees therefor at the rate hereinbefore provided.