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$3, 600 per year, there is appropriated to the State Reporter
of the Court of Appeals of Maryland for such additional sal-
ary, for each of the fiscal years 1925, 1926 and 1927... $600
In the event of the enactment of legislation providing for
the establishment of an Employees Retirement System for the
employees of the Maryland House of Correction and the Mary-
land Penitentiary, there is appropriated to the Board of Wel-
fare for said purpose, for the fiscal year 1925....... $3, 000,

and for each of the fiscal years 1926 and 1927-..... $4, 500

DIRECT APPROPRIATIONS.

To the State Industrial Accident Commission,, additional
compensation allowed by the Commission to William L. Dailey,
in the fiscal year 1925........................... $914

To Louis Perna for losses incurred in construction of
Hyattsville Armory because of State's failure to deliver the
site within specified time, the losses of the contractor and of
all other sub-contractors having been paid under the Budget
of 1920, this appropriation being payable in the fiscal year
1925....................................... $1, 000

Approved March 2, 1924.

CHAPTER 177.

AN ACT to propose an amendment to Section 9 of Article V of
the Constitution of the State of Maryland, title "Attorney-
General and State's Attorneys", sub-title "The State's At-
torneys, " regulating the compensation and the expenses of
the State's Attorney for Baltimore City and that of his
deputy and assistants, and to provide for the submission of
said amendment to the qualified voters of the State of Mary-
land for adoption or rejection.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, three-fifths of all the members of each of the two Houses
concurring, that the following be and the same is hereby pro-
posed as an amendment to Section 9 of Article V, title "At-
torney-General and State's Attorneys", sub-title "The State's
Attorneys", of the Constitution of Maryland, the same if
adopted by the legally qualified voters of the State, as herein
provided, to become Section 9 of Article V of the Constitution.