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stitutional construction, that it does not prohibit, and was
never intended to prohibit, the General Assembly from creat-
ing salaried officers whose pay should exceed $3, 000. The sec-
tion was intended to apply to that class of officers whose pay
or compensation was derived from fees which they were entitled
to receive by law for the performance of their official duties.
Thus construed the second clause of Section 1, Article XV,
expresses in appropriate terms the intention of the framers, "
and

WHEREAS, it is the intention and desire of this General
Assembly to relieve the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore
from the payment of any portion of the salaries to the mem-
bers of the Public Service Commission, Counsel to said Public
Service Commission, State Industrial Accident Commission
and the State Tax Commission, and to provide that said
salaries of said officers constituting said Commissions and the
Counsel therein referred to, shall be paid solely by the State
of Maryland, therefore,

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the salary of each of the Commissioners of the Pub-
lic Service Commission of Maryland, created by Chapter 180
of the Acts of 1910, shall be restored to the salaries therein
provided, so that the salary of the Chairman of the said Public
Service Commission of Maryland shall be six thousand dollars
($6, 000) per annum and the salary of each of the other two
Commissioners shall be five thousand dollars ($5, 000) per
annum, provided that the increase in salary now received by
either of said Commissioners, as increased by Chapter 750 of
the Acts of 1914 shall not be reduced by this Act during his
present term of office, or until the expiration of his term;
that each of the members of the State Industrial Accident Com-
mission of Maryland, created by Chapter 800 of the Acts of
1914, shall receive a salary of five thousand dollars ($5, 000)
per annum; that the salaries of the members of the State Tax
Commission of Maryland, created by Chapter 841 of the Acts
of 1914, shall be as follows: To the Chairman of said Commis-
sion the sum of six thousand dollars ($6, 000) per annum, and
to each of the other two members the sum of five thousand dol-
lars ($5, 000) per annum. And a sum of money sufficient to pay
the salaries of the said members of the Public Service Com-
mission, and the Counsel to said Public Service Commission, the
members of the State Industrial Accident Commission and the
members of the State Tax Commission by the State of Mary-
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