796 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 618

CHAPTER 617.
(House Bill 677)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Sub-section
(2) of Section 196 of Article 56 of the Annotated Code of
Maryland (1939 Edition), title "Licenses", sub-title "Motor
Vehicles", as said section was amended by Chapter 874 of
the Acts of 1941, excepting from the motor vehicle load width
provisions loads of forage crops hauled in connection with
farming operations less than a certain distance on public
highways.

(Vetoed. )

CHAPTER 618.
(House Bill 678)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 216
of Article 11 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland
(1930 Edition), title "Frederick County", sub-title "Fred-
erick", sub-heading "City Register", increasing the compen-
sation of the City Register of Frederick City and providing
for an assistant to said City Register.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 216 of Article 11 of the Code of Public
Local Laws of Maryland (1930 Edition), title "Frederick
County", sub-title "Frederick", sub-heading "City Register",
be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments,
to read as follows:

216. (a) No person shall be City Register of said city unless
he be at the time of his election a citizen of the United States*
above the age of twenty-five years, a freeholder in the city
within the taxable limits thereof, actually residing therein for
three years next preceding his selection. The annual salary of
the person elected City Register shall be Twenty-seven Hun-
dred Dollars, which sum shall be his total compensa-
tion. He shall also be collector of taxes for said city, and
whenever said City Register and tax collector shall find
it necessary to proceed by way of distress or execution to collect
any tax levied by the Mayor and Aldermen of Frederick, which
it is hereby authorized by law to lay, he shall, as far as
practicable proceed in the same manner as is now provided
by the laws of the State of Maryland for the collection of