HERBERT R. O'CONOR, GOVERNOR. 1747

Fund" the sum of One Dollar for each One Thousand Dollars
of assessable property in each of said towns. Such payments
shall be made upon the certification by the County Commis-
sioners of Queen Anne's County, and the said County Com-
missioners are hereby directed to make such certification on
or before the first day of November of each year, of the amount
due each town and such payments shall be used by the incor-
porated towns for the maintenance, construction and/or light-
ing of streets and ways within said towns. The payments
authorized by this section shall be in lieu of all payments
required to be made to any incorporated town in Queen Anne's
County by the County Commissioners of said County under
the terms of the respective charters of said towns, but the
provisions of this section shall not relieve the State Roads
Commission from the provisions of Sub-section (c) of Section
9 of Article 89B of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1943
Supplement) providing for the maintenance of the streets of
the incorporated towns of Queen Anne's County.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That all laws or parts of
laws, whether public general or public local, inconsistent with
the provisions of this Act, be and they are hereby repealed to
the extent of such inconsistency.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted That this Act shall take

effect June 1, 1945.

Approved May 4, 1945.

CHAPTER 1001.
(House Bill 247)

AN ACT to authorize and direct the Police Commissioner of
Baltimore City to pay a pension to the widow of Lieutenant
Martin J. Mannion, a former member of the Police Depart-
ment of Baltimore City.

WHEREAS, Lieutenant Martin J. Mannion became a member
of the police force of Baltimore City March 19, 1901; and

WHEREAS, Lieutenant. Martin J. Mannion, a member of the
Police Department of Baltimore City, died October 29, 1931,
as the result of pneumonia or pleurisy caused by exposure,
while detailed to ride in an open automobile by the Police
Department during a robbery in December of 1927; and