HERBERT R. O'CONOR, GOVERNOR. 699

equal to 5% of said base pay for the first three years of service?
10% for the second three years and so on until the total of his
years of service is twenty-four; and after he has had twenty-
four years of service, his longevity pay shall continue to be
40% of whatever his base pay may be thereafter, from time to
time. Such amount shall be paid to him simultaneously with
his base pay. Any increase or decrease in base pay, received
in any month of any such three year period by reason of pro-
motion^ demotion or otherwise shall be taken into account in
determining the longevity pay receivable by any such employee
and, in figuring the same, the 5%, or multiple or multiples
thereof, as the case may be, shall be taken of the increased or
decreased base pay. In calculating longevity pay for those
who are police employees of the Department on the effective
date of this Act, the years of service rendered by each such
employee to the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles and/or to
the Department prior to the beginning of the fiscal year ending
in 1944 and to the Department thereafter shall be taken into
account.

Every police employee retired on pension under the provi-
sions of this Article shall be paid a pension determined by
using the base pay, set forth in this section, exclusive of the
longevity pay herein provided for, and all contributions made
by such police employee to the pension fund of said Depart-
ment shall be made from said base pay, exclusive of said long-
evity pay.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That a new section be
and the same is hereby added to Article 88B of the Annotated
Code of Maryland (1939 Edition), title "State Police", said
new section to be known as Section 5A, to follow immediately
after Section 5 of said Article and to read as follows:

5A, Nothing in Article 64A of the Annotated Code of
Maryland (1939 Edition), or in any amendment thereof, shall
be construed to authorize the State Employees Standard Salary
Board to reduce the pay or salaries or change the ranks or
grades of any police employee of the Department as fixed or
provided in this Article or to reduce, limit or change in any
way the statutory powers of the Superintendent of the De-
partment as provided in this Article; and nothing in any pay
plan or amendment or amendments thereto, now or hereafter in
effect under Section 16 of said Article 64A, or in any rule or
regulation, now or hereafter in effect under Section 17 of said
Article 64A, shall apply to the police employees of said Depart-
ment. Nothing in this Article shall be construed to deprive
police employees of the benefits of bonuses or of allowances
for the payment of expenses, lodging and subsistence provided
for in Section 17 of this Article. The pay and status of all em-