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diate preservation of the public health and safety, and being
passed by a yea and nay vote, supported by three-fifths of all
the members elected to each of the two Houses of the General
Assembly, the same shall take effect from the date of its
passage.

Approved April 23, 1941.

CHAPTER 250.
(House Bill 415)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section
1089 of Article 16 of the Code of Public Local Laws of
Maryland (1939 Edition of said Article), title "Montgomery
County", sub-title "State's Attorney", relating to the salary
of the State's Attorney for Montgomery County.

SECTION 1. Be It enacted 'by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 1089 of Article 16 of the Code of Public
Local Laws of Maryland (1939 Edition of said Article), title
"Montgomery County", sub-title "State's Attorney", be and
it is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments to
read as follows:

1089. The State's Attorney for Montgomery County shall
receive an annual salary of three thousand dollars ($3, 000. 00)
for the performance of the official duties of his said office,
which now or hereafter may be required by law, said
salary to be in lieu of all fees, appearance and trial,
and all other compensations for same, and to be payable
monthly by the County Treasurer, upon an order of the
County Commissioners, and said duties shall also include
his services before the Justices of the Peace or Trial Magis-
trates of said county in criminal cases in preliminary hearings
or trials when in the public interest he attends on his own
motion or at the request of any of the said justices or Trial
Magistrates, and shall include all advice regarding Criminal
law and procedure which he shall give any Justice of the
Peace or Trial Magistrate of said county; provided, however,
that his actual expenses incurred in following and trying1
criminal cases removed from said county shall be paid in addi-
tion to his salary; and that all general or local laws incon-
sistent with the provisions of this sub-title of this Article
be and the same are hereby repealed.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That, if any clause,
sentence, part or parts of this Act, or of any provisions