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                                                 Exhibit 10(h)
  
    THIS THIRD AMENDMENT TO THE CROWN CENTRAL
  PETROLEUM
  CORPORATION EMPLOYEES SAVINGS PLAN, made on this
  26th day of June, 1997 BY CROWN CENTRAL
  PETROLEUM CORPORATION, a Maryland Corporation:
  
                                   WITNESSETH
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    WHEREAS, Crown Central Petroleum Corporation
  (the "Company") maintains the Crown Central
  Petroleum Employees Savings Plan, amended and
  restated as of January 1, 1987 and as
  subsequently amended (the "Plan").  The Company
  has the power to amend the Plan and now wishes to
  do so.
  
    NOW, THEREFORE, the Plan is amended as follows:
  
    Section 1.22 is amended in its entirety to read
  as follows, effective as of January 1, 1987:
  
    1.22 PENSION PLAN means the Crown Central
  Petroleum Corporation Pension Trust Agreement
  and/or the Crown Central Petroleum Corporation
  Retirement Income Plan as such Plans were in effect
  through June 30, 1993, and from and after July 1,
  1993, means the Crown Central Petroleum Retirement
  Plan which resulted from the merger of the Crown
  Central Petroleum Corporation Retirement Income
  Plan into the Crown Central Petroleum Corporation
  Pension Trust Agreement effective as of July 1,
  1993.
  
    Section 1.31(b) is amended in its entirety to
  read as follows, effective as of January 1, 1987:
  
    (b)  FOR VESTING PURPOSES.  A Year of Service
  means the following:
  
    (i)  In the case of an Employee whose employment
  commencement date is prior to January 1, 1995, a
  twelve (12) consecutive month period, measured from
  the Employee's employment commencement date and
  each anniversary thereof, during which the Employee
  is credited with at least one thousand (1,000)
  Hours of Service.
  
    (ii) In the case of an Employee whose employment
  commencement date is on or after January 1, 1995, a
  Plan Year during which the Employee is credited
  with at least one thousand (1,000) Hours of
  Service.
  
    Section 2.1 is amended by inserting the phrase
  "on any Entry Date thereafter," immediately before
  the phrase "provided that if the Employee is a
  member".
  
    Section 2.2(a) is amended in its entirety to
  read as follows, effective as of January 1, 1987:
  
  (a)    If he had not yet met the service
  requirement of Section 2.1 prior to such
  termination, then:
  
  (i)    If his re-employment date is 12 months or
  more after such termination, his employment
  commencement date for purposes of Section 1.31(a)
  shall be the date of his re-employment;
  
  (ii)   If his re-employment date is less than 12
  months after such termination, his employment
  commencement date for purposes of Section 1.31(a)
  shall be his employment commencement date before
  the termination.
  
    The last paragraph of Section 3.7 is amended in
  its entirety to read as follows, effective as of
  January 1, 1987:
  
    The Administrator shall determine whether the
  Plan satisfies the multiple use limitations after
  applying the ADP test under Section 3.3 and the ACP
  test under Section 3.5 and making any corrective
  distributions required by those Sections.  If the
  Administrator determines that the Plan has failed
  to satisfy the multiple use limitation, the
  Administrator shall correct the failure by reducing
  the ACP of those Highly Compensated Employees
  (beginning with the Highly Compensated Employee
  whose ACP is the highest) so that the limit is not
  exceeded.  The amount by which each Highly
  Compensated Employee's ACP is reduced shall be
  treated as Excess Aggregate Contributions.  This
  Section 3.7 does not apply unless, prior to the
  application of the multiple use limitation, the ADP
  and the ACP of the Highly Compensated Group each
  exceeds 125% of the respective percentages for the
  Nonhighly Compensated Group.
  
    Section 7.1(a) is amended by deleting the second
  sentence and adding the following in lieu thereof,
  effective as of January 1, 1997:
  
    "Upon such a withdrawal, the amount of the
  Participant's Employer Matching Contributions
  Account attributable to the withdrawn After-Tax
  Contributions shall be forfeited."
  
    The first paragraph of Section 10.2 is amended
  by adding the following sentence to the end,
  effective as of January 1, 1987:
  
    For purposes of the consent requirements under
  this article X, if the value of the vested portion
  of all of the Participant's accounts, at the time
  of any distribution exceeds $3,500, the Plan
  Administrator must treat this value as exceeding
  $3,500 for purposes of all subsequent
  distributions.
  
    The first sentence of the last paragraph of
  Section 14.1 is amended in its entirety to read as
  follows, effective as of January 1, 1987:
  
    For purposes of this Section 14.1, the
  contribution rate for a Participant who is a Key
  Employee is the sum of Employer Matching
  Contributions plus Participant Pre-Tax
  Contributions allocated to the Participant's
  Account for the Plan year divided by his
  Compensation for the entire Plan Year.
  
    Section 14.5 is amended in its entirety to read
  as follows, effective as of January 1, 1987:
  
    14.5 Effective for the first Plan Year for which
  the Plan is top heavy and then in all subsequent
  Plan Years, a Participant's vested interest in his
  Employer Matching Contributions Account shall be
  determined in accordance with the following
  schedule:
  
  Years of Service    Vesting Percentage
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     Less than 3           0%
     3 or more           100%
  
    The above top heavy vesting schedule will apply to
  Participants who earn at least one (1) Hour of
  Service after such schedule becomes effective.  The
  adoption of the above top heavy vesting schedule is a
  vesting schedule amendment within the meaning of
  Section 6.1(b).
  
    Article XIV is amended by adding new section 14.7 to the
  end to read as follows, effective as of January 1, 1987:
  
    14.7 The provisions of Section 7.1(a) which require a
  forfeiture of Employer Matching Contributions shall not
  apply if, during any Limitation Year, this Plan is or has
  ever been top heavy.
  
  I.In all respects not amended, the Plan is hereby ratified
     and confirmed.
                                        
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     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this
  Amendment to be executed by its duly authorized
  officer and its corporate seal duly attested as of
  the day and year first above written.
  
  
         ATTEST:          CROWN CENTRAL PETROLEUM
                            CORPORATION
  
  
  
  /s/ - - Dolores B. Rawlings                 By /s/ - -
  Henry A. Rosenberg, Jr.
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        Secretary                  Chairman of the Board