HERBERT R. O'CONOR, GOVERNOR. 1647

of Maryland (1943 Supplement), title "State Roads", be, and
it is hereby repealed and re-enacted with amendments, to read
as follows:

2A. (a) All Resident Maintenance Engineers employed by
the State Roads Commission on June 1, 1945, shall continue in
the same classification unless removed for inefficiency or neg-
lect of duty in accordance with the provisions of Article 64A
of the Annotated Code of Maryland or promoted in accordance
with the provisions of said Article. The State Roads Com-
mission shall also have power and authority to appoint, in
accordance with the provisions of said Article 64A, such other
Resident Maintenance Engineers as it may in its discretion
deem necessary or desirable. The said Resident Maintenance
Engineers shll be paid the same salary or compensation as is
paid to Junior Assistant Highway Engineers, Grade I, as pre-
scribed by the regulations of the State Employees' Standard
Salary Board, and each year of service as a Resident Mainte-
nance Engineer, or in a position doing similar work, shall be
considered as a year of service as a Junior Assistant Highway
Engineer Grade I. All vacancies in the position of Resident
Maintenance Engineer shall be filled by the State Roads Com-
mission, in accordance with the provisions of Article 64A.

(b)'In those Counties of the State where the "Resident
Maintenance Engineer77 has supervision over the maintenance
of both State and County roads, his salary shall be paid as
follows:

One-half from the Lateral Road Gasoline Tax Fund allotted
for the maintenance of County roads;

One-half from the Gasoline Tax Fund allotted for the main-
tenance and reconstruction of the State roads.

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

Approved May 4, 1945.

CHAPTER 954.
(Senate Bill 120)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section
313A of Article 7 of the Code of Public Local Laws of
Maryland (1930 Edition), title "Carroll County, " sub-
title "Revenue and Taxes, " as said section was amended
by Chapter 289 of the Acts of 1939, increasing the