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any other law, in Baltimore county, Baltimore city or Anne
Arundel county, are repealed, annulled and made void, ex-
cept in cases where the companies incorporated by any of
such charters have erected works and commenced the manu-
facture of gas or are now actually engaged in selling gas.

169. The County Commissioners shall, on the first Tuesday
in May, 1902, and on the first Tuesday in May each year there-
after, appoint fifteen experienced physicians, residents of Balti-
more county, to serve as Sanitary Officers, viz: One such officer
for the First Election District of said county, with a salary of
three hundred dollars per annum; one such officer for the Sec-
ond Election District, with a salary of one hundred and twenty-
five dollars per annum; one such officer for the Third District,
with a salary of two hundred and fifty dollars per annum; one
such officer for the Fourth Election District, with a salary of
one hundred and fifty dollars per annum; one such officer for
the Fifth Election District, with a salary of one hundred and
twenty-five dollars per annum; one such officer for the Sixth
Election District, with a salary of one hundred and twenty-five
dollars per annum; one such' officer for the Seventh Election
District, with a salary of one hundred and twenty-five dollars
per annum; one such officer for the Eighth Election District,
with a salary of two hundred and fifty dollars per annum; one
such officer for the Ninth Election District, with a salary of
three hundred dollars; one such officer for the Tenth District,
with a salary of one hundred and twenty-five dollars; one such
officer for the Eleventh District, with a salary of two hundred
dollars; one such officer for the Twelfth District, with a salary
of three hundred dollars; one such officer for the Thirteenth
District, with a salary of two hundred and fifty dollars; one
such officer for the Fourteenth District, with a salary of two
hundred dollars, and one such officer for the Fifteenth District,
with a salary of two hundred and fifty dollars, all of said
salaries to be payable quarterly. And the County Commis-
sioners shall designate and appoint from said board of sanitary
officers one person to act as secretary to the board, who shall
receive an additional compensation of one hundred dollars per
annum.

170. The sanitary officers so appointed shall, within ten days
from the date of their appointment, meet in Towson, and shall
organize as a Board of Sanitary Officers for Baltimore County,
and shall elect one of their number as president; they shall
meet quarterly at Towson on such days in February, May, Au-
gust and November as may be designated by the County Com-
missioners ; they shall collectively, each for their respective dis-
tricts, exercise all the powers and perform all the duties which