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not exceed the sum of Thirty-five hundred dollars, and shall
be payable in monthly installments only on taxes collected and
paid over; one-third of all amounts payable to either of the
Tax Collectors for the First, Second and Third Tax Collection
Districts shall be retained or withheld by the Commissioners
until final settlement by the respective collectors with said
Commissioners; which said sums or commissions shall include
all expenses of whatsoever kind incurred by said Collectors
in the collection of said taxes; said County Commissioners
shall not allow any greater compensation nor pay any bills for
any matter whatsoever for the use of said Collectors nor sup-
ply any stationery or other thing unless the same shall be
charged against the said compensation so to be allowed said
Tax Collectors and if it shall be found at any time during
a fiscal year that any monthly payments to be made to said
Tax Collectors, together with the previous monthly payments,
would exceed two-thirds of any limits of compensation herein
provided, no further payment shall be allowed until final
settlement is made by said Collectors with said County Com-
missioners as aforesaid, provided further that the County
Commissioners shall pay the premium upon each of the bonds
of the respective Tax Collectors.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That all Acts or parts of
Acts inconsistent with the provisions of this Act are hereby
repealed to the extent of such inconsistency.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That this Act is hereby
declared to be an emergency law and is necessary for the
immediate preservation of the public safety, and being passed
by a yea and nay vote, supported by three-fifths of all of the
members elected to each of the two Houses of the General
Assembly of Maryland, the same shall take effect from the
date of its passage.

Approved May 3, 1939.

CHAPTER 62.
(Senate Bill 5)

AN ACT to add twelve new sections to Article 40 of the An-
notated Code of Maryland (1924 Edition), title "General
Assembly", to be under a subtitle "Legislative Council",
said new sections to be known as Sections 26 to 37, in-
clusive, to follow immediately after Section 25 of said Arti-