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BOWIE RACING NOW SAFE AND SURE Burko Bill Pending Taxing Tracks 6000 Per Day Now Thought Sure of Passage BALTIMORE Md March 27 The passage in the Maryland senate on Thursday night of the Prince George County racing bill carrying an emergency provision making it operative immediately by a vote of 17 to 10 places the Southern Maryland Agricultural Associations race course at Bowie on a footing with the other race courses of Maryland The act was necessary if the Southern Maryland Agricultural Association was to conduct a spring I meeting at Bowie the state Court of Appeals having recently declared unconstitutional the law under which racing had previously been conducted in Prince George County There is no fear for the fate of the Prince George County measure in the house of delegates the lower branch of the Mary ¬ land legislature The delegates passed the measure the senate adopted Thursday by the essential con ¬ stitutional majority lint without the emergency clause by a vote of 01 to 22 some time back A bare majority in the lower house will be sufficient now nowAll All this means that there will be nothing to pre ¬ vent the Southern Maryland Agricultural Association from ushering in the eastern racing season of 1120 at tins Bowie course next Thursday and conducting the advertised thirteen days of racing for which about 1000 horses have assembled in Maryland MarylandIt It is generally l clieved at Annapolis that the socalled Iliirlre bill which Jllnces eacing in Mary ¬ land under the control of a commission with state wide authority imposes i flat tax of 0000 daily on all race courses and limits racing at I lie great racks to 100 days will go through next week This measure will give racing in Maryland a legal status it never had before and provide the stale with a revenue of 000UOO annually
