1442                            LAWS OF MARYLAND                     [CH. 877

title "Licenses," subtitle "Motor Vehicle Fuel Tax," providing
for loss from shrinkage, evaporation and expenses incurred in
collection.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 137 (a) of Article 56 of the Annotated Code of Mary-
land (1957 Edition), title "Licenses," subtitle "Motor Vehicle Fuel
Tax" be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted to read as follows:

Article 56
137.

(a) The gasoline tax, imposed by this subtitle in respect to
motor vehicle fuel sold or used in any calendar month, less an amount
equivalent to 1% of the tax due and payable which is hereby allowed
such person on account of IN LIEU OF loss from shrinkage, evapora-
tion and handling and to reimburse the registered dealer for the ex-
penses incurred on behalf of the State in maintaining records, collect-
ing gasoline tax monies, preparing necessary reports and remittance
in complying with the provisions of this subtitle, shall be paid on or
before the last day of the next succeeding month to the Comptroller
who shall receipt the dealer therefor. From the monies thus re-
ceived, the Comptroller each month shall (1) retain such sum as
in his judgment shall be sufficient to enable him to pay promptly all
claims for refunds payable therefrom, (2) retain an amount equal
to one month's proportionate part of the current fiscal year's ap-
propriation to the Comptroller for maintaining the Gasoline Tax
Collection Department in the office of the Comptroller, (3) remit
one-seventh of all the remainder (representing the net proceeds of
the tax collected under Section 136 (g) of this subtitle) to the State
Treasurer, who shall hold and distribute these monies according to
the provisions of Section 29A of Article 89B of this Code; and (4)
forthwith remit the balance to the State Treasurer. The State
Treasurer shall hold the monies so received from the Comptroller
under Item No. (4) of this subsection in a special fund hereby
created and known as the "Gasoline Tax Fund," said fund to be
thereafter held and distributed in accordance with the provisions
applicable to said fund contained in Section 30 of Article 89B of
the Annotated Code of Maryland.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1965.

Approved May 4, 1965.

CHAPTER 877
(House Bill 26)

AN ACT to repeal Section 305C of Article 93 of the Annotated Code
of Maryland (1935 Supplement), title "Testamentary Law," sub-
title "Sales," as added by Chapter 495 of the Acts of 1929 and as
prospectively repealed by Chapter 581 of the Acts of 1939; to
repeal Section 391 of Article 93 of the said Code (1957 Edition),