360                             LAWS OF MARYLAND                      [CH. 160

supervisors shall be furnished with an office at the county seat by
the county commissioners of each county, and the supervisor of
assessments for Baltimore City shall likewise be furnished an office
in Baltimore City by the mayor and city council; and they shall be
allowed such clerical help and expense as the county commissioners
and the mayor and city council of Baltimore shall respectively deter-
mine. They shall confer frequently with the State Department of
Assessments and Taxation, submitting questions for determination
to that Department and shall receive and carry out instructions given
by the Department or the chief supervisor of assessments appointed
by the Department for their guidance in supervising the valuation
and assessment of real and personal property; they shall likewise
keep constantly informed of the method of work pursued by other
supervisors of assessments. After July 1, 1961, supervisors of assess-
ments shall not hold their positions after they have attained the age
of seventy (70) years, except that this shall not apply to the super-
visor of assessments of Baltimore County until and after December
1, [1966] 1967.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That Section 21-1 of the Bal-
timore County Code (1958 Edition, being Article 3 of the Public
Local Laws of Maryland), title "Baltimore County", subtitle "Title
21. Pensions and Retirement", subheading "Article I. Officers and
Employees Generally", as last amended by Chapter 174 of the Laws
of 1965, be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amend-
ments, to read as follows:

21-1. The county is hereby authorized and empowered to estab-
lish and maintain a general system of pensions and retirements for
the benefit and advantage of its officers, agents, servants and em-
ployees, with necessary classifications and terms of admission; to
provide that upon the establishment of any such system of pensions
and retirements, its officers, agents, servants and employees thereto-
fore or thereafter appointed, by whatever authority, except those
appointed directly by the Governor of Maryland, whose salary or
compensation is paid by the county shall be eligible to admission to
such pension or retirement system, subject to such exceptions, exclu-
sions, limitations and restrictions as may be deemed expedient in
connection with the admission to or the continuance in such pension
and retirement system of any of such officers, agents, servants and
employees. Members of the regular fire and police bureaus shall be
eligible to admission to such pension or retirement system in lieu
of their admission to the special retirement systems provided for
them in this title. Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, the
supervisor of assessments of Baltimore County shall not be subject
until December 1, [1966] 1967, to any mandatory retirement require-
ments of this retirement system by virtue of his having attained the
age of seventy (70) years.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That Section 3 of Chapter 174
of the Laws of 1965 be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with
amendments, to read as follows:

Section 3. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall expire
automatically and with no further action required by the General
Assembly on December 1, [1966] 1967.