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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Additional jus
tice of the

empowered and directed to appoint one additional justice of

peace.

the peace for the Second Election District of Garrett County,

and to be located in the town of Friendsville in said Election

District No. 2.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect

from the date of its passage.

Approved April 7, 1904.

CHAPTER 355.

AN ACT to repeal Section 43J of Article 1 of Code of Pub-

lic Local Laws, title ''Allegany County," sub-title "County

Treasurer," as enacted by Chapter 413 of the Acts of 1902,

and to re-enact the same with amendments.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-

land, That Section 43 J of Article 1 of the Code of Public Local

Treasurer of

Laws, title "Allegany County," sub-title "County Treasurer,"

Allegany

as enacted by Chapter 413 of the Acts of 1902, be and the same

County.

is hereby repealed and re-enacted with amendments so as to

read as follows:

43 J. The said Treasurer shall be entitled, as compensation

Compensation

for his services, to a salary of twenty-five hundred dollars per

for services.

annum, payable after each monthly report herein provided for,

but any commission payable to such Treasurer for the collec-

tion of State taxes shall be deducted from said salary or cred-

ited to Allegany County, and the said salary shall be in full

for the services rendered by such Treasurer in the discharge

of the duties of his office and no extra compensation shall be

allowed him except such costs and fees hereinbefore specified

as may accrue in the enforcement of payment of taxes and for

assessing new property ; provided, that the Commissioners may,

in their discretion, and if they deem it necessary to the proper

discharge of the duties of his office, allow him a sum of money

not to exceed ten hundred dollars per annum for stamps, clerk

hire and other expenses; and the said Commissioners are au-

thorized and directed in their several annual levies to levy an

amount sufficient to pay the salary and expenses so allowed.

The said salary so allowed shall not be retained by the Treas-

urer out of collections made, but shall be paid him by check

as other claims are paid, and from time to time, as such salary

shall be earned and in no other manner; provided, however,

that one-half of the annual salary of the said Treasurer shall

not be paid unto him until an auditing of his books and collec-