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visors of Elections shall audit his time and allow him com-
pensation only for the time during which he has actually served.

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

Approved March 21st, 1922.

CHAPTER 113.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Section 238
of Article Eleven of the Code of Public Local Laws of
Maryland, title "Frederick County, " sub-title "Fred-
erick, " as codified in the Code of Public Local Laws of
Frederick County, Maryland, (legalized by Chapter 86 of
the Acts of 1918).

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 238 of Article eleven, of The Code of Public
Local Laws of Maryland, title "Frederick County", sub-title
"Frederick", as codified in the Code of Public Local Laws of
Frederick County, Maryland, (legalized by Chapter 86 of the
Acts of 1918) be and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted
with amendments, so as to read as follows:

238. No person shall be City Register of said City unless
he be at the time of his election a citizen of the United States,
above the age of twenty-five years, a freeholder in the City
within the taxable limits thereof, actually residing therein, and
having resided therein for three years next preceding his elec-
tion. The annual salary of the person elected City Register
shall be Fifteen Hundred Dollars, which sum shall be his total
compensation. He shall also be Collector of Taxes for said City,
and whenever said City Register and Tax Collector shall find it
necessary to proceed by way of distress or execution to collect
any tax levied by The Mayor and Aldermen of Frederick, which
it is hereby authorized by law to lay, he shall, as far as practi-
cable proceed in the same manner as is now provided by the
laws of the State of Maryland for the collection of State and