HERBERT R. O'CONOR, GOVERNOR, 1723

370 of Article 4 of the Code of Public Local Laws (1930
Edition), title "Salaries of Clerks of Courts", and to enact
in lieu thereof, a new section, to be known as Section 19,
and to follow immediately after Section 18 of said Article
17 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1939 Edition), to
provide for the duties of the Clerks of the various Courts of
the State in regard to the payment of the expenses of their
offices, their fees and receipts, the manner of payment and
amount of their salaries and the payment of any deficiency
in said salaries.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted "by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Sections 19, 20 and 21 of Article 17 of the Anno-
tated Code of Maryland (1939 Edition), title "Clerks of
Courts", sub-title "General Duties of Clerks", and Section 370
of Article 4 of the Code of Public Local Laws (1930 Edition),
title "Salaries of Clerks of Courts", be and the same are hereby
repealed, and that a new section be and it is hereby enacted
in lieu thereof, said new section to be known as Section 19, to
follow immediately after Section 18 of said Article 17 of the
Annotated Code of Maryland (1939 Edition), and to read as
follows:

19. The Clerk of the Criminal Court of Baltimore City and
of each of the Law and Equity Courts of Baltimore City, shall
be entitled to receive annually a salary of not less than Three
Thousand Six Hundred Dollars ($3, 600. 00) or more than
Seven Thousand Five Hundred Dollars ($7, 500. 00), to be fixed
and determined in the case of each clerkship by the Board of
Public Works, and each Clerk shall be entitled to the salary
so fixed and no more.

The Board of Public Works, in fixing the annual salaries of
each of the said Clerks of Baltimore City, shall be guided in
the exercise of its discretion in regard thereto by the dollar
volume of the total fees collected and of excess fees turned
over to the State for each of the preceding five (5) years by
the Clerks office for which the salary is being fixed, and the
number of cases instituted and tried in the Court for which
the salary is being fixed, by the volume of docket entries and
recordings transcribed by the office for which the salary is
being fixed, and by any other pertinent and relative data,
bearing on the reasonableness of the salary in relation to the
work done and volume handled by the office, it being the intent
of this Act that each clerk shall receive fair and adequate com-
pensation for the effort and duties required by his office, and
volume and character of work done by him as Clerk, in pro-
portion to the salaries fixed by the Legislature for the Clerks
of the Circuit Courts of the several counties.