1762 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 1011

reason be adjudged by any court of competent jurisdiction to be
invalid, such judgment shall not affect, impair or invalidate
the remainder thereof, but shall be confined in its operation to
the clause, sentence, paragraph or part thereof, directly in-
volved in the. controversy in which such judgment shall have
been rendered. If the application of this Article, or any part
thereof, to any person or circumstance shall be adjudged by
such court to be invalid or ineffectual for any reason, such judg-
ment shall not affect the application of such Article or part
to any 'other person or circumstances.

SEC. 2. And 'be it further enacted, That all laws or parts
of laws 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are hereby repealed to the extent of such inconsistency.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 1011.
(House Bill 345)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Sub-section
(e) of Section 620B of Article 1 of the Code of Public Local
Laws of Maryland (1930 Edition), title "Allegany County",
sub-title "Teachers' Salaries", as said sub-section was
enacted by Chapter 975 of the Acts of 1943, providing that
persons engaged by the Board of Education of Allegany
County in either janitorial work or in stenographic or secre-
tarial work shall receive a ten per cent. (10%) increase in
salary.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Sub-section (e) of Section 620B of Article 1 of the
Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland (1930 Edition), title
"Allegany County", sub-title "Teachers' Salaries", as said sub-
section was enacted by Chapter 975 of the Acts of 1943, be
and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments,
to read as follows:

975.

(e) That the Board of Education of Allegany County is
hereby authorized, empowered and directed to increase at the
rate of not less than ten per cent. (10%) the wages or salaries

620B evidently intended.