1564 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 685

priations aforesaid to State Charitable and Educational Insti-
tutions shall be paid in equal quarterly installments.

Approved May 4, 1916, with the exception of the item dis-
approved, and with the exception of the portion of the amount
of the item disapproved, as appears in the disapproval of the
said item and in the disapproval of the portion of the amount
of the said item hereunto annexed.

The provisions of the items of the above Act, to wit: Chap-
ter 684 entitled "An Act making appropriations for the sup-
port of the State Government for the fiscal year ending on the
thirtieth day of September, nineteen hundred and eighteen"
are hereby approved, with the exception of the following pro-
vision and item, and with the exception of the following named
portion of the amount of the item contained in said Act, which
is respectively disapproved, to wit:

On page 3, lines 18, 19, 20 and 21 of the enrolled Act,
under the caption "Judiciary, " the item "for the commissions
of attorneys on claims of the State placed in their hands for
collection three thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be
necessary" is hereby approved to the extent and amount of two
thousand dollars, and disapproved to the extent and amount of
one thousand dollars.

CHAPTER 685.

AN ACT making appropriations for the support of the State
Government for the fiscal year ending on the thirtieth day
of September, nineteen hundred and seventeen.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That for the expenditures in the support of the State Gov-
ernment for the fiscal year beginning with the first day of Oc-
tober, nineteen hundred and sixteen, and ending with the thir-
tieth day of September, nineteen hundred and seventeen, the
following sums of money, or so much thereof as may be neces-
sary, be and the same are hereby appropriated, that is to say:

FOR STATE OFFICERS.

For the salary of the Governor, four thousand five hundred
dollars; for the salary of the Secretary of State, two thousand
dollars; for the salary of the Chief Clerk to the Governor,
twenty-four hundred dollars; for the salary of one clerk to the
Governor, two thousand dollars; for the salaries of two clerks
to the Governor, fifteen hundred dollars each, three thousand