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regularly employed by the Authority at the Airport shall be transferred with no
diminution of salary to the employment of the State of Maryland, with full credit
for all purposes for prior years service with the City of Baltimore and the
Friendship International Airport Authority AND THE STATE OF MARYLAND
AND WITH NO REDUCTION IN RETIREMENT OR OTHER BENEFITS
OR ALLOWANCES EARNED AND ACCRUED BY SUCH EMPLOYEE
THROUGH PRIOR STATE SERVICE, NOTWITHSTANDING THE
PROVISIONS OF SECTION 53 OF ARTICLE 88B OF THE ANNOTATED
CODE OF MARYLAND, without further examination or qualification and shall
be subject generally to the provisions of Article 64A of the Annotated Code of
Maryland provided further, that any agreements between the Authority and any
labor group representative of employees at the Airport which is in existence at the
time of said transfer of title to the State of Maryland shall become the obligation
of the State of Maryland, and provided further that nothing in this Act shall be
construed to require the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore to sell Friendship
International Airport to the State of Maryland.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take
effect July 1, 1973.

Approved May 21, 1973.

CHAPTER 485
(Senate Bill 1139)

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AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 278(b) of Article 81 of
the Annotated Code of Maryland (1969 Replacement Volume and 1972
Supplement), title "Revenue and Taxes", subtitle "Recordation Tax", to make
[[a nomenclatural change]] nomenclatural changes therein, and to provide that
moneys from the open-spaces land and recreational fund may be used to restore
the Alms Housekeeper's residence in Harford County as an administrative
headquarters for parks and recreational purposes subject to plans approved by
the Maryland Historical Trust, or to construct a new headquarters for that
purpose.

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That Section 278(b) of Article 81 of the Annotated Code of
Maryland (1969 Replacement Volume and 1972 Supplement), title "Revenue and
Taxes", subtitle "Recordation Tax", be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted,
with amendments, to read as follows:

278.

(b) In Harford County the proceeds from the sale of State stamps at the rate of
$2.20 or fractional part thereof of actual consideration or debt secured shall be
deposited by the County [[Commissioners ]] GOVERNMENT in a special capital