WM. PRESTON LANE, JR., GOVERNOR. 373

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 4 of Chapter 169 of the Acts of 1933, as
said section was amended by Chapter 185 of the Acts of 1943,
he and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments,
to read as follows:

4. The County Commissioners of Anne Arundel County
shall appoint and dismiss, upon the recommendation of the
said Volunteer Fire Companies, two chauffeurs for each of
said companies, and in addition thereto, the necessary relief
chauffeurs to substitute for the regular chauffeurs when the
latter are off on vacation or sick, as hereinafter provided.
The County Commissioners are hereby directed to levy a
special tax in each Election District, sufficient to pay the
salaries of the chauffeurs and relief chauffeurs of the several
Volunteer Fire Companies and to pay the salary of each
chauffeur and relief chauffeur from the tax levied in the
Election District in which the Volunteer Fire Department
employing the chauffeur or relief chauffeur is located. The
salary for each chauffeur shall, after July 1, 1947, be $2,100.00
per year, payable in equal monthly installments, except that
any such chauffeur employed on June 1, 1947 shall, from
and after that date, receive not less than $2,400.00 per year;
provided further, that any chauffeur beginning at a salary
of |2,100.00 per year after June 1, 1947, shall be paid $100.00
additional for each year of service thereafter, subject to said
maximum of $2,400.00 per year.

All chauffeurs appointed under this Act shall be entitled
to 15 days annual vacation, at the full rate of pay.

The County Commissioners, upon the recommendation of
the several Volunteer Fire Companies, shall appoint a relief
chauffeur for each of the several Volunteer Fire Companies,
to substitute for the regular chauffeurs when they are off on
vacation. The pay of said relief chauffeurs shall be com-
puted at the annual rate of $2,100.00.

Persons now employed as chauffeurs of the several Volun-
teer Fire Companies shall be appointed by the County Com-
missioners in preference to all other applicants to fill the
positions created by this Act. The County Commissioners
may pass rules and regulations setting forth the duties of
each of the chauffeurs appointed under this Act.

The County Commissioners may retire any chauffeur of a
Volunteer Fire Department who shall after the date of this
Act become permanently disabled while in the active perform-
ance of his duties, or who has performed faithful services as
a chauffeur for a period of not less than twenty (20) consecu-
tive years' service prior to this Act to be included, and has