SPIRO T. AGNEW, Governor                      1055

Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That until all of the interest
on and principal of any certificates issued under this Act have been
paid in full, there is hereby levied and imposed an annual State tax
on each $100 of assessable property at the rate to be determined in
the following manner: on or before May 1, 1968, and on or before
May 1 in each fiscal year thereafter, the Board of Public Works
shall certify to the governing bodies of each of the Counties and
Baltimore City the rate of State tax on each $100 of assessable
property necessary to produce revenues to meet all interest and prin-
cipal which will be payable to the close of the next ensuing fiscal
year on all certificates theretofore issued or theretofore authorized
by resolution of the Board of Public Works to be issued, and the
governing bodies of each of the Counties and Baltimore City shall
forthwith levy and collect such tax at such rate.

All matters committed by this Act to the discretion of the Board
of Public Works shall be determined by a majority of said Board.

Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1967.

Approved April 21, 1967.

CHAPTER 458
(Senate Bill 273)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 52 of
Article 100 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1964 Replacement
Volume), title "Work, Labor and Employment", subtitle "Hours of
Labor for Females", to remove certain obsolete restrictions on
the hours of evening work by female employees in manufacturing
and other kinds of business.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 52 of Article 100 of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1964 Replacement Volume), title "Work, Labor and Employment",
subtitle "Hours of Labor for Females", be and it is hereby repealed
and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

52.

No female shall be employed or permitted to work in any manu-
facturing, mechanical, mercantile, printing, baking or laundering
establishment more than ten hours in any one day, nor more than
sixty hours in any one week, [nor more than eight hours in any one
day, if any part of her work is done before six o'clock in the morning
or after ten o'clock in the evening of the said day,] nor shall any
female be employed or permitted to work for more than six hours
continuously at any one time in any of the aforesaid establishments
in which three or more such persons are employed, without an inter-
val of, at least, a half hour, except that such female may be so
employed for not more than six and a half hours continuously at one
time, if she shall not be permitted to work during the remainder
of the day in her said employment. Provided, further, that the in-