612 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 319

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 898 of Article 16 of the Code of Public
Local Laws of Maryland (1930 Edition), title "Montgomery
County", sub-title "Sheriff", be and it is hereby repealed and
re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

898. The Sheriff of Montgomery County is hereby au-
thorized and required to appoint at least three deputy
sheriffs for said county, who shall provide automobiles or
motorcycles for their own use in performing their duties, and
shall be. paid by the County Commissioners, each of said
Deputy Sheriffs shall receive the sum of twenty-one hundred
dollars per annum, payable in monthly installments of one
hundred and seventy-five dollars, and in addition each of the
three aforesaid deputy sheriff's shall be paid by the County
Commissioners an annual sum of six hundred dollars in
monthly installments of fifty dollars, which sum or sums shall
be in lieu of all expenses for traveling, transportation or use
of automobiles, and in lieu of any and all expenses now or here-
tofore allowed said Deputy Sheriffs by way of salary, fees or
expenses. The Sheriff shall have power to designate one of
the deputy sheriffs as Chief Deputy, who shall be paid an addi-
tional compensation of three hundred dollars per year. That
said deputies shall hold office at the pleasure of the Sheriff
and shall be removed by said sheriff at any time said sheriff
may elect or by the Circuit Court for Montgomery County,
upon indictment and conviction as now provided by law.

That it shall be the duty of the Sheriff of Montgomery
County to require said deputies to do and perform at any time
in any place in said county any service incident to the office
of deputy sheriff, which they may be by the sheriff ordered
to do and perform, and the deputies of the Sheriff of Mont-
gomery County shall not be entitled to demand or be paid any
further or otter compensation for the rendition of any service
incident to their office than that such as is provided by this
Act.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect June 1, 1937.

Approved May 18, 1937.

CHAPTER 319.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Sections
191, 192, 193, 194, 195, 196 and 197 of Article 24 of the Code
of Public Local Laws of Maryland (1930 Edition), title