8                                      Laws of Maryland                             [Ch. 2

CHAPTER 2
(Senate Bill 2)

AN ACT concerning

Appropriation for the Expenses of the Special Session

FOR the purpose of making an emergency appropriation for the payment
of the expenses of the General Assembly of Maryland for the Second
Extraordinary Session of 1973.

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
OF MARYLAND, That the sum of Twenty-Five Thousand Dollars
($25,000), or so much thereof as may be necessary, be and the same
is hereby appropriated as an emergency appropriation from any funds
in the General Surplus Fund Account of the Treasury of the State for
the fiscal year ending June 30, 1974, for the payment of the officers and
employees of the General Assembly of Maryland of the Second Extra-
ordinary Session of 1973 and for the expense of said Session, including
mileage and expenses of the members, printing, binding, and miscellaneous
expenses.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That the Treas-
urer of the State shall, upon the warrant of the Comptroller, disburse
the said sum of money herein appropriated for the objects and purposes
herein specified, to or upon the order of the person or persons entitled
to receive the same.

SECTION 3. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act is
hereby declared to be an emergency measure and necessary for the im-
mediate 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 November 13,1973.