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SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.

Approved April 8, 1908.

CHAPTER 172.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Section 206
of Article 23 of the Code of 1904 of the Public General Laws
of Maryland.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 206 of Article 23 of the Code of 1904 of the
Public General Laws of Maryland, be and the same is hereby
repealed and re-enacted, so as to read as follows:

SEC. 206. The entire expense of his office shall not exceed
sixty-five hundred dollars ($6, 500) a year, which shall be paid
out of moneys paid into the State Treasury by or for the insur-
ance companies doing business in this State; and immediately
upon the qualification of the Fire Marshal, as provided in Sec-
tion 203, the Treasurer shall, upon the warrant of the Comp-
troller, pay to the said Fire Marshal the sum of thirty-two hun-
dred and fifty dollars ($3, 250), and a like sum at the expira-
tion of each succeeding period of six months, and out of the
moneys thus received by him he shall pay himself a salary of
twenty-five hundred dollars ($2, 500) per annum, payable in
monthly instalments, and he shall provide himself a clerk at a
salary not exceeding fifteen hundred dollars ($1, 500) a year,
also payable monthly; he shall also be allowed out of said
moneys a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars ($500) a year
for office rent, and may employ from time to time such other
clerical and other assistants, and provide himself with such
means of conveyance as in his judgment the necessities of the
office may require; and when in the proper discharge of his
duties he is compelled to go outside the limits of the city of
Baltimore, he shall be allowed his traveling, hotel and other
necessary expenses; he shall also provide himself with such
office fixtures and appliances as the needs of his office may re-
quire; and at the end of each year, accounting from the date
of his qualification as Fire Marshal, he shall make to the Comp-
troller, under oath, a full report of the receipts and disburse-
ments received and made by him during the preceding year,
and shall at the same time pay into the State Treasury any
balance of said sum of sixty-five hundred dollars ($6, 500) that
may then remain unexpended; and he shall keep or cause to be
kept, full and accurate accounts of the finances of his office,