798 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 492:

Department; the general counsel and assistant general
counsel of the Public Service Commission; members of
boards and commissions, and all other persons holding
positions by direct appointment from the Governor or from
the Board of Public Works; all secretaries, chief clerks,
and chief administrative officials of all State offices, boards,
commissions, departments, and institutions as determined
by the Commissioner with the approval of the Governor;
employees of or assigned to the Executive Mansion; mem-
bers of the police force and all employees of the Police Com-
missioner for the City of Baltimore, and of the Board of
Police Examiners of Baltimore City, provided for by Arti-
cle 4 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland (1938
Edition), title "City of Baltimore", sub-title "Police Com-
missioners", Sections 868 and 968, both inclusive, and any
amendments thereto, it being intended that said sections,
and any amendments thereto, shall remain in effect inde-
pendently of this Article; all positions in State offices,
boards, commissions, departments and institutions, which
the Commissioner may determine, with the approval of
the Governor, require medical, engineering, scientific, edu-
cational or expert training and qualifications; and all posi-
tions the annual salary for which does not exceed the sum
of six hundred and fifty dollars ($650) per annum.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the persons
now holding clerical and stenographic positions of em-
ployment in the State Law Department or transferred from
said Department to another department of the State, shall
continue in the discharge of their duties as classified em-
ployees subject to the provisions of this Article, but with-
out the necessity of examination and with the same classi-
fication and status to which they have heretofore respec-
tively qualified, namely, one Chief Clerk, one Legal Stenog-
rapher, one Senior Stenographer and one Senior Typist in
the State Law Department, and one Legal Stenographer
attached to the State Roads Commission. Such persons
shall have all the rights and privileges, including seniority
rights, accorded classified employees to the same extent
as if they had been within the Classified Service from the
time of their respective employment in the State Law De-
partment or in any other State Department or position,
whichever was earlier.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall
take effect June 1st, 1941.

Approved April 28? 1941.