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one assistant clerk at a salary of Eighteen hundred ($1,800)
dollars and one deputy assistant clerk at a salary of Fifteen hun-
dred ($1,500) dollars per annum. The said clerks, and in the City
of Baltimore the chief clerk, deputy clerk, assistant clerk, and
deputy assistant clerk, shall be appointed by the respective boards
of supervisors, and shall be removable by them in their discretion.
In Baltimore City, the chief clerk, deputy clerk, assistant clerk,
and deputy assistant clerk, with the approval of the Super-
visors, shall from time to time, secure such temporary as-
sistance as may be necessary for the proper transaction of the
business of the office, but the compensation of such assistants
to be paid by the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, upon
requisition by the said Supervisors, shall not exceed the sum

of Two thousand ($2,000) dollars in any one year.

SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect

from the date of its passage.
Approved April 10th, 1914.

CHAPTER 392.

AN ACT for the relief of the residents of St. George's Island,
Maryland.

(Vetoed.)

CHAPTER 393.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Sections 12 and
13 of Article 75 of the Code of Public General Laws of Mary-
land, title "Pleadings, Practice and Process at Law," sub-
title "Pleadings," and to re-enact the same with amendments.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Sections 12 and 13 of Article 75 of the Code of Pub-
lic General Laws of Maryland, title "Pleadings, Practice and
Process at Law," sub-title "Pleadings" be and the same are
hereby repealed and re-enacted with amendments, so as to read
as follows:

12. In any suit ex contractu or upon any judgment, if the

defendant shall have any demand or claim arising ex contractu

or upon judgment against the plaintiff, the defendant may plead

such claim specially, whether such claim of the defendant be for

liquidated or unliquidated damages, and whether it be of such