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may be appropriated therefor. The Attorney-General shall
cause the books and papers of his department to be arranged
and indexed in such convenient and orderly manner as to be
at all times readily accessible. He shall also keep in said
office a complete docket and duplicate pleadings of all suits,
actions and proceedings of which the Department of Law has
charge, upon which docket such appropriate entries shall be
made as to show at all times, the condition of each of such
cases. He shall also keep on record, in convenient and acces-
sible form, copies of all written opinions furnished by the
Department of Law, and also abstracts of all titles examined
by or for the Department.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the salary of the
additional Assistant Attorney-Greneral provided for by section
4 hereof, from the time this Act takes effect until the close
of the present fiscal year, shall be paid out of any moneys in
the Treasury available for that purpose, and not otherwise ap-
propriated.

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

Approved March 22nd, 1918.

CHAPTER 23.

AN ACT to add an additional section to Article 4 of the Code
of Public Local Laws of Maryland, title "City of Baltimore, "
sub-title "Police Commissioners, " said additional section to
follow immediately after Section 744 of said Article and to be
numbered Section 744-A; the same providing that the Board
of Police Commissioners shall have power to reinstate in their
former rank or grade all members of the Police Department
who may leave or have left therefrom to enter the military
or naval service of the United States upon their return from
such service and passing a satisfactory physical examination.