WM. PRESTON LANE, JR., GOVERNOR 435

and with the consent of said County Commissioners and the
Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Annapolis for the Sixth
District of Anne Arundel County. The amount to be dis-
tributed to the Fire Company or companies of each Election
District shall be levied only in the Election District wherein
the said Fire Company or companies are located.

327. The County Commissioners of Anne Arundel County
are hereby authorized and empowered to pay the sum of
Forty-four Thousand Dollars ($44,000.00) to the several
Volunteer Fire Companies for the purchase, maintenance,
operation and replacement reserve for fire fighting equipment,
truck quarters and chauffeurs' dormitories, provided, however,
that the tax levied in the City of Annapolis shall be paid to
the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Annapolis, who shall
pay the same to the several volunteer fire companies of the
City of Annapolis, for the purchase, maintenance and replace-
ment reserve for fire fighting equipment only; no money shall
be spent for parade or dress uniforms or for any other pur-
pose than provided in this sub-title. No such payment shall
be made unless the fire fighting apparatus is properly equipped
with the necessary fire fighting appliances for the protection
of the area in which they operate. No Volunteer Fire Com-
pany shall receive any payments under this sub-title unless it
is equipped with the fire alarm system, approved by the
County Commissioners of Anne Arundel County and the
Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Annapolis for the Sixth
District of Anne Arundel County.

329. (a) The County Commissioners of Anne Arundel
County shall appoint and dismiss, upon the recommendation
of the said Volunteer Fire Companies, two chauffeurs for each
of said companies, and in addition thereto, the necessary re-
lief chauffeurs to substitute for the regular chauffeurs when
the latter are off on vacation or sick, as hereinafter provided.
The County Commissioners are hereby directed to levy a
special tax in each Election District, sufficient to pay the
salaries of the chauffeurs and relief chauffeurs of the several
Volunteer Fire Companies and to pay the salary of each
chauffeur and relief chauffeur from the tax levied in the
Election District in which the Volunteer Fire Department
employing the chauffeur or relief chauffeur is located. The
salary for each chauffeur shall, after July 1, 1947, be $2,100.00
per year, payable in equal monthly installments, except that
any such chauffeur employed on June 1, 1947, shall, from and
after that date, receive not less than $2,400.00 per year; pro-
vided, further, that any chauffeur beginning at a salary of
$2,100.00 per year after June 1, 1947, shall be paid $100.00