ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 13

of fifty thousand dollars; and the said County Commissioners,
at their April session in the year 1912, and in every year there-
after shall before said collectors enter upon the performance
of their duties fix the salary or compensation of each of said
tax collectors for the ensuing year, to be paid by the commis-
sioners and not retained out of the collections by the collector,
which amount so fixed by said commissioners shall be in full
of all compensation of every kind to be paid the said collectors
for collecting the State and county taxes so placed in their
hands for collection from year to year, and Section 31 of Ar-
ticle 81 of the Code of Public General Laws so far as the same
relates to Allegany County is hereby repealed, except as here-
inbefore provided; and the salary or compensation shall be
upon a commission basis to be determined by the commission-
ers, and shall be payable in monthly instalments only on taxes
collected and paid over, one-third of which shall be retained
or withheld by the Commissioners until final settlement by the
respective collectors with the said commissioners; provided,
however, that the compensation aforesaid shall not exceed the
sum of fifty-five hundred dollars to be paid to the collector in
the first collection district, and the sum of thirty-five hundred
dollars to the collectors in the second and third collection dis-
tricts, respectively, which said sums shall include all expenses
of whatsoever kind incurred by said collectors in the collection
of said taxes, and said County Commissioners shall not allow
any greater sum nor pay any bills for any matter whatsoever
for the use of said collector nor supply any stationery or other
thine; unless the same shall be charged against the said sum so

to be allowed said tax collectors, and if it shall be found at
any time during a fiscal year that any monthly payments to
be made to said tax collectors, together with previous monthly
payments, would exceed two-thirds of said total sums, no
further payments shall be allowed until final settlement is
made by said collectors with said County Commissioners, as
aforesaid.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act is hereby
declared to be an emergency law and necessary for the immedi-
ate preservation of the public safety, and being passed upon a
yea and nay vote supported by three-fifths of all the members
elected to each of the two Houses of the General Assembly,
the same shall take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved March 1st, 1922.