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[three] four assistant writ clerks at an annual salary of [$6,500]
$7,000, one stenographer and docket clerk at an annual salary of
$5,000, two clerks at an annual salary of $4,000 and [thirty-four]
thirty-nine deputy sheriffs at annual salaries of $5,500 $6,000 each
and such assistants at such compensation as shall be provided for in
the annual ordinance of estimates of Baltimore City. Provision shall
also be made in said ordinance for the expenses of the office of the
Sheriff, including the purchase and maintenance of motor vehicles,
and the mayor and city council shall have the same power with re-
spect to the salaries of the office of Sheriff as it has under the city
charter with respect to the salaries of all municipal departments.

The mayor and city council shall pay monthly to the Sheriff of
Baltimore City one twelfth of the amount provided in the ordinance
of estimates for the expenses of the Sheriff's office. Within thirty days
after December 31st in each and every year the Sheriff of Baltimore
City shall pay to the mayor and city council of Baltimore any of the
unexpended expense funds advanced during the year preceding said
December 31st, and render a detailed account to the mayor and city
council of Baltimore of all expense funds received and expended by
him.

SEC. 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, THAT THE PRO-
VISIONS OF THIS ACT AS THEY RELATE TO THE SALARY
OF THE SHERIFF OF BALTIMORE CITY SHALL NOT BE
CONSTRUED TO EXTEND OR APPLY TO THE SHERIFF OF
BALTIMORE CITY IN OFFICE ON THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF
THIS ACT, BUT THE PROVISIONS OF THIS ACT SHALL TAKE
EFFECT WITH THE NEXT TERM OF OFFICE.

Sec. 2. 3. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect June 1, 1965. OCTOBER 1, 1965.

Approved May 4, 1965.

CHAPTER 659
(Senate Bill 500)

AN ACT authorizing and empowering the State of Maryland or
the State Roads Commission to repay to Worcester County any
monies it may have paid toward the cost of constructing the bridge
over Sinepuxent Bay between Assateague Island and the mainland
of Worcester County and to relieve Worcester County from paying
any further sum of money toward the cost of such bridge if that
portion of Assateague Island not now owned by the State of
Maryland, and which will be developed as a State Park is acquired
by the United States Government or an agency thereof, and
relating generally to the payment of the cost of such bridge.

Whereas, Chapters 646 and 647 of the Acts of the General
Assembly of Maryland, 1961 Session, authorized the construction
of a bridge across Sinepuxent Bay between Assateague Island and
the mainland of Worcester County and provided that the State of
Maryland shall pay $500,000 toward the cost thereof, the State Roads
Commission shall pay $500,000 toward the cost thereof and the