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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

when called upon by said board, in the absence or disability
of any of said matrons, or as necessity for their services may
arise, and shall only receive pay during the time of actual
service rendered by them.

Duties of
matrons.

Sec. 767. The duties of each matron shall be to give such
care and advice, and to perform such other police duties as
may be requisite and proper, to the female persons, male
children under fourteen years of age, and refugees in the
station-house for which said matrons shall have been appointed
or assigned; and the duties of the superintendent of matrons
shall be to visit each of the police station-houses twice each
week, and to give assistance to the matrons in the perform-
ance of their duties, and to make such recommendations from
time to time to the Board of Police Commissioners as may
promote the efficiency and proper performance of the duties of
the matron.

Compensation

Sec. 768. Each of said matrons and substitute matrons
when employed shall receive a salary of ten dollars a week,
and the superintendent of matrons a salary of twelve dollars
a week, to be paid by the Mayor and City Council of Balti-
more, and it shall be included in the annual estimate of
expenses by said Board of Police Commissioners, certified to
the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore.

Approved April 7, 1900.

CHAPTER 534.
AN ACT to repeal, and re-enact with amendments Section
42A of Article 1 of the Code of Public Local Laws, en-
titled "Allegany County," sub-title "County Tax Collect-
ors," being Section 42 A, of Chapter one hundred and
seventy-nine, of the Acts of the General Assembly of Mary-
land eighteen hundred and ninety-eight.

Allegany Co.
Tax collectors

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 42 A, of Article 1 of the Code of Public
Local Laws, title "Allegany County," sub-title ''Tax Col-
lectors," being Section 42A of Chapter one hundred and
seventy-nine of the Acts of eighteen hundred and ninety-
eight, be and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted with
amendments so as to read as follows:

Sec. 42A. The tax collectors for each of said tax-collection
districts shall have been bona fide residents of the several
collection districts for which they shall be elected for at least