1262 LAWS OP MARYLAND. [CH. 518

(1943 Supplement), title "Clerks of Courts", sub-title
"General Duties of Clerks", as said section was amended
by Chapter 654 of the Acts of 1945, increasing the salary
of the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Wicomico County.

SECTIONl. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 19 of Article 17 of the Annotated Code of
Maryland (1943 Supplement), title "Clerks of Courts",
sub-title "General Duties of Clerks", as said section was
amended by Chapter 654 of the Acts of 1945, be and it is
hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read
as follows:

19. (a) The Clerk of the Criminal Court of Baltimore
City and of each of the Law and Equity Courts of Balti-
more City, shall be entitled to receive annually a salary
of not less than Three Thousand Six Hundred Dollars
($3,600.00) or more than Seven Thousand Five Hundred
Dollars ($7,500.00), to be fixed and determined in the case
of each clerkship by the Board of Public Works, and each
Clerk shall be entitled to the salary so fixed and no more.

(b) The Board of Public Works, in fixing the annual
salaries of each of the said Clerks of Baltimore City, shall
be guided in the exercise of its discretion in regard
thereto by the dollar volume of the total fees collected
and of excess fees turned over to the State for each of
the preceding five (5) fears by the Clerks office for which
the salary is being fixed, and the number of cases insti-
tuted and tried in the Court for which the salary is being
fixed, by the volume of docket entries and recordings
transcribed by the office and by any other pertinent and
relative data, for which the salary is being fixed, bearing
on the reasonableness of the salary in relation to the work
done and volume handled by the office, it being the intent
of this Act that each clerk shall receive fair and adequate
compensation for the effort and duties required by his
office, and volume and character of work done by him as
Clerk, in proportion to the salaries fixed by the Legisla-
ture for the Clerks of the Circuit Courts of the several
counties.

(c) The Clerks of the Circuit Courts of the several
counties of the State, shall be entitled to receive respec-
tively, the annual salaries hereinafter set forth and no
more, as follows:

The Clerk of the Circuit Court of Calvert County shall
be entitled to receive the annual salary of $3,500.

The Clerks of the Circuit Courts of Dorchester, Kent,
St. Mary's, Harford, Caroline, Somerset, Frederick, Queen