1016                           LAWS OF MARYLAND                      [CH. 433

(c)  This subsection shall not apply to college or high school fra-
ternities or sororities or other fraternal organizations membership
in which is restricted wholly or largely to students or graduates of
educational institutions or professional schools.

(d)  Real estate or any estate therein, heretofore or hereafter
acquired and held for future use, and not for investment, by any
hospital or asylum not organized or conducted for profit, provided
that the exemption of property held for future use granted by this
subsection shall be for the period January 1, 1947, to December 31,
[1966] 1969.

(e)  All exemptions from taxation hereunder shall be allowed by
the assessing authority upon the filing of a claim in writing under
oath, made by or on behalf of the institution or organization claiming
the same, showing the right to the exemption, briefly describing the
property for which exemption is claimed. Such exemptions shall be
allowed and prorated by the assessing authority for the recession
of the real property intended to be exempt thereunder.

(f)  The governing body of any subdivision of the State by appro-
priate resolution, may return any taxes collected on property which
would have been exempt had proper claim in writing been made
therefor in the manner provided hereunder.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That any and all property
taxes which may have been imposed following December 31, 1966,
and up to the effective date of this Act, on real estate or any estate
therein, heretofore or hereafter acquired and held for future use, and
not for investment, by any hospital or asylum not organized or con-
ducted for profit, are abated and no longer due and payable.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1967.

Approved April 21, 1967.

CHAPTER 433
(Senate Bill 176)

AN ACT to legalize the 1967 Cumulative Pocket Supplement to the
Annotated Code of the Public General Laws of Maryland (1957
Edition), prepared and published by the Editorial Staff of The
Michie Company, Charlottesville, Virginia, and making it evidence
of the law.

Whereas, By Chapter 23 of the Acts of 1957, the General Assem-
bly legalized and made evidence of the law the 1957 Edition of the
Annotated Code of the Public General Laws of Maryland published
by The Michie Company; and

Whereas, The 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, and

1966  Supplements to that Code have been legalized by the General
Assembly and published by The Michie Company; and

Whereas, Another Supplement to that Code, to be known as the

1967  Cumulative Pocket Supplement and to contain the Public Gen-