374 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 472

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That section 231 of Article 93 of the Annotated
Code of the Public General Laws of Maryland (Bagby's Code),
title "Testamentary Law," sub-title "Orphans' Court," be re-
pealed and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 231. The judges of the Orphans' Court of the sev-
eral counties shall each receive the sum of four dollars for
every day's attendance upon the sessions of said Court, to be
paid at least as often as at the end of each and every quarter
after the qualification of said judges by the counties, provided
that St. Mary's county be exempted from the provisions of this
section. The judges of the Orphans' Court of Baltimore City
shall each receive eleven dollars for every day's attend-
ance upon the session of said Orphans' Court of Baltimore
City, to be paid by the City of Baltimore at the end of each
and every month and the sessions of said Orphans' Court of
Baltimore City shall continue from 11 o'clock A, M. to 3
o'clock P. M., if necessary, for the transaction of the business
of the Court, and provided that all provisions of any public
general law or any public local law inconsistent herewith be
and the same are hereby repealed.

SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect on the first day of Janu-
ary, 1919.

Approved April 18th, 1918.

CHAPTER 472.

AN ACT to authorize and empower the Police Commissioners
of Baltimore City to pay a pension to Luther Welsh.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the Police Commissioners of Baltimore City be
authorized and empowered, and they are hereby authorized and
empowered, if in their judgment the ends of justice will there-
by be met, to pay to Luther Welsh, a former police officer, for
the rest of his natural life as a pension the sum of $10.00, or
such other sum in bulk or weekly, as, in their judgment, may
be just and equitable, out of the funds in its possession or sub-
ject to its control. Said pension or said sum to be paid as
the said commissioners may direct.

Approved April 18th, 1918.