J. MILLARD TAWES, Governor                         21

the County and relating to the State agency which is to cooperate
with the County in this project.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 566(b) of Article 43 of the Annotated Code of Mary-
land (1963 Supplement), title "Health," subtitle "Hospitals," be and
it is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as
follows:

566.

(b) The Board of County Commissioners of Somerset County shall
cooperate within the terms of this section and subtitle for the con-
struction of a nursing home hospital and related hospital facilities
by contributions up to [one third] One Hundred and Fifty Thousand
Dollars ($150,000.00) of the cost of this nursing home hospital and
hospital facilities. The nursing home hospital so constructed shall
be provided in the Town of Crisfield as a [forty-bed] sixty-bed
nursing home hospital adjoining McCready Hospital in that town,
to be known as the Alice Byrd Tawes Nursing Home and to be on
the same grounds as McCready Hospital, and to have a corridor con-
necting therewith. For this purpose the County Commissioners of
Somerset County shall levy or appropriate from the general funds
of the county up to a maximum of [$65,000 over a four-year period
from June 1, 1963] One Hundred and Fifty Thousand Dollars
($150,000.00); or they may (within the limits of any restriction
upon their borrowing power) secure the payment of this sum by
the issue of bonds or other certificates of indebtedness, pledging
the full faith and credit of the county to the payment of interest
and principal thereon. [Any gifts or contributions received from
any source whatsoever for the nursing home building shall be paid
over to the county in reimbursement for its payments hereunder.
For the purposes of this subsection the State Board of Health as
the sole agency to represent the State shall represent and cooperate
with the Board of County Commissioners of Somerset County.]

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act is hereby de-
clared to be an emergency measure and necessary for the immediate
preservation of the public health and safety and having been passed
by a yea and nay vote supported by three-fifths of all the members
elected to each of the two houses of the General Assembly, the same
shall take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 7, 1964.

CHAPTER 15
(House Bill 21)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Sections 8 (h),
9 (h), 9A (a) and 11 (j) of Article 2B of the Annotated Code of
Maryland (1957 Edition and 1963 Supplement), title "Alcoholic
Beverages," subtitle "Beer Licenses"; to add new Section 10 (h-1)
to Article 2B of said Code, of said title and subtitle, to follow im-
mediately after Section 10 (h) thereof; to repeal and re-enact,