HERBERT R. O'CONOR, GOVERNOR. 1135

CHAPTER 891.
(House Bill 380)

AN ACT to add a new section to Article 17 of the Annotated
Code of Maryland (1939 Edition), title "Clerks of Courts",
sub-title "General Duties of Clerks", said new section to be
known as Section 25 A and to follow immediately after
Section 25 of said Article, authorizing and directing the
Comptroller to approve the inclusion of expenditures by the
Clerks of the Circuit Courts and the Clerks of the Courts of
Baltimore City for additional compensation to clerks em-
ployed in their offices.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted Ity the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That a new section be and it is hereby added to Article
17 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1939 Edition), title
"Clerks of Courts", sub-title "General Duties of Clerks", said
new section to be known as Section 25A, to follow immediately
after Section 25 of said Article, and to read as follows:

25A. The Comptroller is hereby authorized and directed to
approve the inclusion in the annual returns required under
Section 22 hereof, of expenditures by Clerks of the Circuit
Courts for the Counties and the Clerks of the Courts of Balti-
more City representing payment of additional compensation
to assistant clerks and deputies employed in these offices of
fifteen per centum (15%) of the regular compensation author-
ized for such assistant clerks and deputies, provided this
authority for additional compensation shall be limited to
those assistant clerks and deputies whose regular compensa-
tion does not exceed Three Thousand Eight Hundred Dollars
($3, 800. 00) per annum; the said payment of additional com-
pensation to become effective July 1, 1945, and to be added
to the regular compensation at the times of payment of such
regular compensation. The additional compensation herein
provided for shall apply to the Chief Clerks of the offices of
the Clerks of the Courts of Baltimore City, for whose regular
compensation appropriations are made in the State Budget.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect June 1, 1945.
Approved April 27, 1945.

CHAPTER 892.
(House Bill 528)

AN ACT to add a new section to Article 3 of the Code of
Public Local Laws of Maryland (1930 Edition), title "Bal-
timore County", sub-title "Health and Sanitation", said
new section to be known as Section 313F to follow imme-