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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 rules and regula-
tions setting forth the duties of each of the chauffeurs ap-
pointed 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 perform-
ance of his duties, or who has performed faithful services as a
chauffeur for a period of not less than twenty (20) consecutive
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 regular
monthly salary. No chauffeur shall be retired before reaching
the age of sixty-five (65) until he shall have been examined
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 is hereby
declared to be an emergency law and necessary for the immedi-
ate preservation of the pubic health and safety, and having
been 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 March 23, 1943.

CHAPTER 186.
(House Bill 281)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 45
of Article 77 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1939 Edi-
tion), title "Public Education", sub-title "Chapter 4. County
Board of Education", relating to the title to school property
in Allegany County when such property is no longer needed
for educational purposes.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 45 of Article 77 of the Annotated Code of
Maryland (1939 Edition), title "Public Education", sub-title
"Chapter 4. County Board of Education", be and it is hereby
repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows: