ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 231

CHAPTER 109.

AN ACT to provide for the retirement of the Honorable Henry
Stockbridge, one of the Judges of the Court of Appeals of
Maryland, he having become unable to discharge his duties
with efficiency by reason of continued sickness.

WHEREAS, the Honorable Henry Stockbridge. after serving
for a number of years as one of the Judges of the Supreme
Bench of Baltimore City, and after having served as a Judge
of the Court of Appeals under appointment by the Governor,
was elected as a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Maryland
on the seventh day of November, nineteen hundred and eleven,
and has served in that capacity up to the present time, making
a service upon the Bench of this State of much more than fif-
teen consecutive years, but he has now by reason of continued
sickness become unable to discharge the duties of his said office
With efficiency; and whereas he will, on the eighteenth day of
September, nineteen hundred and twenty-six, prior to the ex-
piration of his current term, attain the age of seventy years:
and whereas the present volume of the work of the Court of
Appeals requires the prompt appointment of a successor. Now,
therefore:

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, two-thirds of the members of each House concurring and
with the approval of the Governor of the State, that the Hon-
orable Henry Stockbridge be retired from the said office of
Judge of the Court of Appeals of Maryland, upon condition,
however, that he shall continue to receive the salary of his office
as now provided until he shall be seventy years of age, and
from that time he shall be entitled to receive the salary pro-
vided for in Section 46 of Article XXVI of the Code of Public
General Laws of Maryland, in the manner provided therein for
judges who having served fifteen years upon the Bench, attain
the age of seventy years.

SEC. 2. Be it further likewise enacted, That this Act is here-
by declared to be an emergency law and necessary for the im-
mediate preservation of the public health or safety, and being
passed by a yea and nay vote supported by three-fifths of the
members elected to each of the two Houses of the General As-
sembly, the same shall take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 9, 1924.