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of twenty-two hundred dollars ($2, 200. 00) annually. The
guard that is regularly assigned as steward, shall be paid an
annual salary of eighteen hundred dollars ($1, 800. 00). The
first shift night head guard shall receive an annual salary of
two thousand dollars ($2, 000. 00) and the second shift night
head guard shall receive an annual salary of nineteen hundred
dollars ($1, 900. 00). The guard assigned as the Bertillion Offi-
cer, shall be paid an annual salary of eighteen hundred dollars
($1, 800. 00). Each of the other guards who shall have been em-
ployed as such under two years, shall be paid an annual salary
of fifteen hundred dollars ($1, 500. 00). Each guard who shall
have been employed as such, over a period of two years to five
years, shall be paid an annual salary of sixteen hundred dol-
lars ($1, 600. 00). Each guard who has been employed as such
for over a period of five years to ten years, shall be paid an
annual salary of seventeen hundred dollars ($1, 700. 00). Each
guard who has been employed as such for more than ten years
shall be paid an annual salary of eighteen hundred dollars
($1, 800. 00); provided, however, that each guard who shall be
assigned to duty in any of the shops or dormatories for day
service, shall receive in addition to the salaries herein set forth,
an additional compensation at the rate of two hundred dollars
($200. 00) annually, said salaries to be paid in equal semi-
monthly installments. The Board shall likewise prepare and
put into force and operation a schedule whereby each and
every guard shall have at least thirty-six days off each year
including the period of vacation.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect June 1, 1929.

Approved April 11, 1929.

CHAPTER 432.

AN ACT to repeal Sections 3 and 6 of Article 30 of the Anno-
tated Code of Maryland (1924 Edition), title "Deaf, Dumb
and Blind, " said section relating to appropriations to Mary-
land School for the Blind.

WHEREAS, Since the adoption of the Budget Amendment, sec-
tions of the Code providing for specific appropriations to the
several departments are useless and superfluous; therefore