ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 131

taxes for the Third Tax Collection District shall be in the sum
of fifty thousand dollars; and said County Commission-
ers, at their April session in the year 1922, and in every
year thereafter shall before said collectors enter upon the per-
formance of their duties fix the salary or compensation of each
of said tax collectors for the ensuing year, to be paid by the com-
missioners and not retained out of the collections by the collec-
tor, 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 Article
81 of the Code of Public General Laws so far as the same re-
lates to Allegany County is hereby repealed, except as hereinbe-
fore provided; and the salary or compensation shall be upon a
commission basis to be determined by the commissioners, 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 col-
lectors in the second and third collection districts, respectively.
which said sums shall include all expenses of whatsoever kind in-
curred 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 thing unless the same shall
be charged against the said sum so to be allowed said tax collec-
tors, 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, provided further that the County
Commissioners shall pay the premium upon each of the bonds
of the respective Tax Collectors.

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

Approved April 9, 1924.