WM. PRESTON LANE, JR., GOVERNOR. 1541

100. At the general election of county officers of Alle-
gany County, to be held in said county, November, 1950,
and every four years thereafter, a clerk to the Board
of County Commissioners shall be elected by the qualified
voters of said county, who shall hold the office of clerk
for the term of four years from the time of his election
and qualification or until his successor is elected and quali-
fied and who shall be subject to removal from said office
upon conviction in a court of law of wilful neglect of duty
or malfeasance in office; said Clerk shall be paid for his
services not less than twenty-four hundred dollars
($2,400.00) per annum, payable in sums of two hundred
dollars at the expiration of each and every month, by the
Treasurer of Allegany County, from the funds of said
county; and said clerk, before entering upon the discharge
of his duties, shall give bond to the County Commissioners
of Allegany County in the sum of five thousand dollars
for the faithful discharge of his duties.

103. He shall have power to administer oaths
to all persons who come before said Commissioners to
make transfers, or ask for rebates or reductions, or other
changes in assessments on the assessment books of said
county, and shall have power to take affidavits to all papers
to be filed in the office of said Commissioners.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That Section 101 of
said Article 1 be and it is hereby repealed.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That this Act is
hereby declared to be an emergency law and necessary for
the immediate preservation of the public health and safety,
and having been passed by a yea and nay vote, supported
by three-fifths of all the members elected to each of the
two Houses of the General Assembly, the same shall take
effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 25, 1947.

CHAPTER 611.
(Senate Bill 133)

AN ACT to add a new paragraph to Section 6 of Article 4
of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland and the
Baltimore Charter adopted by the voters of Baltimore