MONTGOMERY COUNTY. 947

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That for the purpose aforesaid,
the said County Commissioners of said county are hereby au-
thorized, empowered and directed to borrow said sum of money
and to secure the said money, the said County Commissioners
are further authorized and empowered to issue bonds of said
County, for the sum of twelve thousand dollars ($ 12,000) and in

such denominations and for such period or periods as said Coun-
ty Commissioners may deem expedient; the said bonds to be
issued in series, maturing as said County Commissioners shall

determine, and bear interest not exceeding four per centum
per annum from date; all of which bonds shall be exempt from
county and municipal taxation in said county; and for pur-
pose of paying such bonds as they may mature the said County

Commissioners are hereby directed to levy in each and every
year upon the assessable property of said county to be collected
as other county taxes now are, or as may be directed by any
general or special law for the collection of county taxes, such

sum as shall be sufficient to pay the interest on such of said
bonds as may then remain unpaid, and also the principal of
such bond or bonds as may mature within the fiscal year for
which levy is made.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted. That this Act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.

Approved April 8th. 1910.

CHAPTER 550.

AN ACT to regulate the salary of the State's Attorney for
Montgomery county.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the State's Attorney for Montgomery county shall
receive an annual salary of two thousand dollars for the per-
formance of the official duties of his said office, which now or
hereafter may be required by law, said salary to be in lieu of
all fees, appearance and trial, and all other compensations for
same, and to be payable semi-annually, on the first day of
January and the first day of July, by the County Treasurer,
-upon an order of the County Commissioners; and said du-
ties shall also include his services before the Justices of the
Peace of said county in criminal cases in preliminary hear-
ings or trials when in the public interest he attends on his own
motion or at the request of any of the said Justices, and shall
include all advice regarding criminal law and procedure which
he shall give any Justice of the Peace of said county; provided,
however, that his actual expenses incurred in following and
trying criminal cases removed from said county shall be paid