1462 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 585

CHAPTER 584.

AN ACT to fix the salaries of signal and telephone operators in
the Police Department of Baltimore City and to classify the
said officials as patrolmen.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the Signal and Telephone Operators in the Police
Department of Baltimore City shall be classified as patrolmen
and shall receive such salaries and compensation as are now or
as may hereafter be provided for in the case of members of the
said Police Department having the rating of patrolmen.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted. That this Act shall take
effect January 1, 1925.

Approved April 9, 1924.

CHAPTER 585.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Sections 1,
3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 of Article 75-A of the Annotated Code
of Maryland, title, "Public Accountant, " and to add five
new sections to said Article, the said new sections to be
known as Sections 9 to 13, both inclusive, and to follow im-
mediately after Section S of said Article, for the purpose of
Letter establishing and regulating the practice of public ac-
counting as a profession.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Sections 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 of Article 75-A

of the Annotated Code of Maryland, title, "Public Account-
ing, " be and they are hereby repealed and re-enacted, with
amendments, and that live new sections be and they are here-
by added to said Article, said new sections to be known as
Sections 9 to 13, both inclusive, and to follow immediately
after Section 8 of said Article, and all to read as follows:

1. Any citizen of the United States, or person who has
duly declared his intention of becoming such citizen, residing
or having a place for the regular transaction of business in the
State of Maryland, being over the age of 21 years, and of
good moral character, and who shall have received from the
Governor of the State of Maryland a certificate of his qualifi-
cation to practice as a certified public accountant, as herein-
after provided, shall be styled and known as a certified public