HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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(C) (3) FOR THE FISCAL YEAR BEGINNING JULY 1, 1983 THROUGH
JUNE 30, 1984 THE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS MAY BORROW UP TO A TOTAL
OF $2,000,000 $750,000, WHICH SHALL BE REPAID IN FULL BY THE END
OF THE DAY ON JUNE 30 MARCH 15, 1984.

(D) FOR THE FISCAL YEAR BEGINNING JULY 1, 1984 THROUGH JUNE
30, 1985 THE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS MAY BORROW UP TO A TOTAL OF
$2,000,000, WHICH SHALL BE REPAID IN FULL BY THE END OF THE DAY
ON JUNE 30, 1985.

(E) (C) IN THE EVENT of any deficiency in revenue and
taxation to meet the amounts [provided] FOR WHICH PROVISION IS
MADE in the [said] estimates, there shall be a pro rata abatement
of all appropriations, except for the payment of the State taxes
and the principal and interest of the county debt[, and in case].

(F) (D) IN THE EVENT of any surplus arising in any fiscal
year[,] by reason of excess of income received from the estimated
revenue over the expenditures for such year, the [said] surplus
shall be passed by the [board of] county commissioners to a fund
which shall be a part of the revenue for the ensuing fiscal year.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That the severability
provisions of Article 1, Section 23, of the Annotated Code of
Maryland are applicable to this enactment.

SECTION 2 3. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
is hereby declared to be an emergency measure and necessary for
the immediate 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 February 21, 1984.

CHAPTER 2

(House Bill 82)

AN ACT concerning

Absentee Ballots

FOR the purpose of altering certain requirements and procedures
for obtaining emergency absentee ballots; providing that
certain emergency absentee ballots shall be counted under
certain circumstances; providing that absentee ballots shall
contain a certain warning; providing that each board of