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MAY TAX MARYLAND TRACK RECEIPTS. Raltiniore. Md.. Jtiniiarv 25. — What is worrying tin- Maryland legislators now is the revenue propositi.. n. Some plan must be devised to meet the is ftrtency of ,300,000, and the race tracks in Maryland are going to be made to help out. The Legislature intends to compel the race tracks to contribute liberally to the state. The plan proposed is to compel all to adopt the pari niutuel nyslem of betting and imposing a tax on the gross re-eei| is. As there is five BMnteha* rae-ing on all tracks in l he slate a handsome sum could be realized. Every track In the state has voluntarily put in the mutuels within the past two years, except that at Havre de ;race. ami even though legislation waa not asked tor it is believed that the Havre ele Grace ■aaagers woald have installed the midlines this year. The church people of the slate are bitterly opposed to the tracks IxMiig continued at all. and they will enter strong pretest all along this line, but it will be of no avail, as long as the state is to get g nxl revenue from them. The taxation of trross receipts will be a radical step, but it is believed that the managers will not objcit just so long tis they are allowed to heap the tracks open.
