HERBERT R. O'CONOR, GOVERNOR. 1013

and he shall employ, subject. to the approval of the County
Commissioners of Allegany County, a competent man, to
be known as the County investigator, at a salary of two
hundred and fifty dollars a month to conduct the work of
this Bureau. The County Commissioners of Allegany
County are hereby directed, authorized and empowered to
pay such necessary expenses for the maintenance of this
Bureau, including rent, as in their opinion are reasonable
and consistent with a proper conduct of the Bureau, and
shall levy for the same, including the salary of the County
investigator, as expenses of the State's Attorney's office.
These bills must be presented direct to the County Com-
missioners, made out and sworn to on the regular forms
now in use by the County Commissioners, and must be
certified to by the State's Attorney, and all false swear-
ing in such reports and affidavits shall be deemed perjury
and punished as such.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall
take effect June 1, 1945.

Approved April 27, 1945.

CHAPTER 808.
(House Bill 469)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 35
of Article 66B of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1943
Supplement), title "Zoning and Planning7/ sub-title "Plan-
ning", sub-heading "Title V. General Provisions", elimin-
ating St. Mary's County from the list of counties exempt
from said sub-title.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 35 of Article 66B of the Annotated Code of
Maryland (1943 Supplement), title "Zoning and Planning",
sub-title "Planning", sub-heading "Title V. General Pro-
visions", be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with
amendments, to read as follows:

35. (Conflict With Other Laws. ) Wherever the regulations
made under authority of this sub-title require a greater width
or size of yards, courts, or other open spaces, or require a
lower height of buildings or less number of stories, or require
a greater percentage of lot to be left unoccupied or impose