776                        LAWS OF MARYLAND.                  [CH. 305

CHAPTER 305.

AN ACT to repeal Section 128 of Article 16 of the Public
Local Laws of Maryland, title "Montgomery County, " sub-
title "County Commissioners, " said section being designated
as Section 198 of said Article 16 as edited and codified by
Horace E. Flack under the provisions of Chapter 193 of the
Acts of the General Assembly of Maryland, Session of 1929,
and to re-enact said section with amendments, thereby fixing
the compensation of the clerk to the Board of County Com-
missioners and of the assistant clerks.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Section 128 of Article 16 of the Public Local
Laws of Maryland, title "Montgomery County, " sub-title
"County Commissioners, " said section being designated as Sec-
tion 198 of said Article 16 as edited and codified by Horace
E. Flack under the provisions of Chapter 193 of the Acts of
the General Assembly of Maryland, Session of 1929, be and
the said section is hereby repealed and re-enacted to read as
follows:

128 (198). The Board of County Commissioners shall ap-
point a clerk, to serve at the pleasure of the Board of County
Commissioners, and for his services he shall receive a salary
to be determined by said board not to exceed the sum of three
thousand ($3, 000. 00) dollars per annum. Before entering
upon the duties of his office he shall execute a bond to the State
of Maryland in form and with surety to be approved by said
board, in the penalty of ten thousand ($10, 000. 00) dollars,
conditioned upon the true and faithful performance of the
duties of his office, said bond to be recorded in the office of
the Clerk of the Circuit Court for Montgomery County. He
shall give his personal attendance to and keep open the office
of the County Commissioners during business hours on every
week day except legal holidays. He shall have charge of all
records, files, books and papers belonging to the office of said
board and shall not allow any of them to be removed or taken
from said office except in obedience to a subpoena duces tecum
or other order issued by a court of competent jurisdiction, and
shall deliver all such records, files, books and papers to his suc-
cessor in office and shall perform such other duties authorized
or directed by said board not inconsistent with law. The said
board may, in its discretion appoint two assistant clerks, each
at a compensation not to exceed the sum of two thousand one