HERBERT R. O'CONOR, GOVERNOR. 1027
CHAPTER 483.
(House Bill 587)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Section 798
of Article 22 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Mary-
land (1930 Edition), title "Washington County", sub-title
"State's Attorney", as amended by Chapter 112 of the Acts
of 1933, increasing the compensation to be paid employees
of the Bureau of Identification and Criminal Investigation
of Washington County.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 798 of Article 22 of the Code of Public
Local Laws of Maryland (1930 Edition), title "Washington
County", sub-title "State's Attorney", as amended by Chapter
112 of the Acts of 1933, be and it is hereby repealed and re-
enacted with amendments to read as follows:

798. It shall be the duty of the State's Attorney for Wash-
ington County to maintain a Bureau of Identification and
Criminal Investigation, and he shall employ, subject to the
approval of the County Commissioners of Washington County,
a competent man at a salary of One Hundred and Twenty-five
Dollars ($125. 00) per month to conduct the work of said
Bureau, the man so appointed to be capable of doing finger
print, photographic, criminal investigation, and detective
work, and to devote so much of his time as the State's At-
torney may direct to criminal identification and criminal in-
vestigation work in Hagerstown and Washington County,
under the direction and supervision of the State's Attorney.
The County Commissioners of Washington County shall pay
the necessary expenses for the maintenance of said Bureau
not to exceed One Hundred and Sixty-five Dollars ($165. 00)
per month as follows: the aforementioned salary of One Hun-
dred and Twenty-five Dollars ($125. 00) per month; printing,
stationery, telephone, stamps, traveling expenses, and other
expenses that may be necessary for the maintenance of said
Bureau not to exceed Forty Dollars ($40. 00) per month, and
shall levy for the same as expenses of the State's Attorney's
office. Bills for all expenses of said Bureau must be presented
direct to the County Commissioners for payment by the
County Commissioners, made out and sworn to on the regular
forms in use by the County Commissioners and must be certi-
fied to by the State's Attorney, and all false swearing in such
affidavits shall be deemed perjury and be punished as such.

An office shall be provided for the said Bureau at Police
Headquarters in the City of Hagerstown, Maryland.