HERBERT R. O'CONOR, GOVERNOR. 1539

from the road taxi of the Election District in which said
Volunteer Fire Company is located. The salary of each
chauffeur shall be as follows:

First year...................... $1, 200. 00

Second year..................... $1, 250. 00

Third year...................... $1, 300. 00

Fourth year..................... $1, 350. 00

Fifth year...................... $1, 400. 00

Sixth and each successive year.... $1, 440. 00

The above salaries shall be payable monthly in equal in-
stallments. Persons now employed as chauffeurs of the several
Volunteer Fire Companies shall be appointed by the County
Commissioners in preference to all other applicants to fill the
positions created by this Act, and shall be given credit for the
years of service completed prior to the enactment of this Act,
in computing their pay scale. The County Commissioners
may pass rales and regulations setting forth the duties of
each of the chauffeurs appointed under this Act.

The County Commissioners may retire any chauffeur of a
Volunteer Fire Department who shall after the date of this
Act become permanently disabled while in the active per-
formance of his duties, or who has performed faithful services
as a chauffeur for a period of not less than twenty (20) con-
secutive years, service prior to this Act to be included, and has
reached the age of sixty-five (65) years, and place the chauffeur
so retired upon a pension roll and pay him one-half his regu-
lar monthly salary. No chauffeur shall be retired before
reaching the age of sixty-five (65) until he shall have been ex-
amined by a board of three physicians of the State Department
of Health and its findings as to disability assigned as a reason
for retirement shall have been certified to the County Com-
missioners. This Act shall not apply to the City of Annapolis.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect June 1, 1939.

Approved May 17, 1939.

CHAPTER 722.
(House Bill 464)

AN. ACT to add a new section to Article 5 of the Code of
Public Local Laws of Maryland, title "Calvert County", sub-
title "Chesapeake Beach", to be known as Section 44A, and
to follow immediately after Section 44 of said Article 5,
authorizing the Town Treasurer to conduct sales of property