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County to maintain a Bureau of Identification, and he shall
employ subject to the approval of the County Commissioners of
Allegany County a competent man at a salary of Two Hundred
Dollars a month to conduct the work of this Bureau. The
County Commissioners of Allegany County shall pay direct
the necessary expenses for the maintenance of this Bureau not
to exceed Two Hundred and Seventy-five Dollars a month as
follows: Expert's salary, Two Hundred Dollars a month; rent
not in excess of Thirty Dollars a month; printing stationery,
telephone, stamps, and any other expenses that may be neces-
sary for the maintenance of this Bureau not to exceed Forty-
five Dollars a month, and shall levy for the same as expenses
of the State's Attorney's office. These bills must be presented
direct to the County Commissioners made out and sworn to

on the regular forms now in use by the County Commissioners,
and must be certified to by the State's Attorney, and all false
swearing in such reports and affidavits shall be deemed per-
jury and be punished as such.

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 on a
"Yea" and "Nay" vote supported by three-fifths of all 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 March 23, 1927.

CHAPTER 91.

AN ACT to authorize and direct the Police Commissioner of
Baltimore City to pay a pension to the widow of Richard
E. Freeman, deceased, a former member of the Police De-
partment of Baltimore City.

(Vetoed. )

CHAPTER 92.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Section 604
of Offutt's Code of Public Local Laws of Baltimore County

(Edition of 1916), sub-title "Sheriff" as said Section was
amended by Chapter 93 of the Acts of 1922 of the General