1808 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 1027

the employee in question. The County Commissioners for
Montgomery County are hereby empowered, authorized and
directed to levy for and pay the salary and expenses of the said
supervisor of school property and his assistants, as herein set
forth, and to provide pay and levy for all the employees under
his supervision. When the County Commissioners shall have
levied a definite amount for the functions assigned in this sec-
tion to the primary jurisdiction of the Supervisor of School
Property, such amounts cannot be diverted to other activities
of the County Board of Education without a concurrent resolu-
tion of the Board of County Commissioners approving such
transfer of funds.

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

Approved May 4, 1945.

CHAPTER 1027.
(House Bill 547)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 282
of Article 16 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1939 Edi-
tion), title "Chancery", sub-title "Witnesses and Testimony",
amending said section in order that testimony may fee taken
in divorce cases, as in all equity cases, without having first
procured leave of the court.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 282 of Article 16 of the Annotated Code of
Maryland (1939 Edition), title "Chancery", sub-title "Wit-
nesses and Testimony", be and it is hereby repealed and re-
enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

282. Whenever any cause is at issue involving matter of
fact, or whenever any evidence is required to be taken, to be
used in any proceeding in equity, it shall be competent to the
party desiring to take evidence to notify one of the regular ex-
aminers, or any special examiner that may be appointed, of
such desire, and to furnish him with the titling of the cause
and the names of witnesses to be summoned to testify; and the
examiners so applied to shall fix some reasonable day or days
for the examination of witnesses, and the taking of evidence, of
which he shall give due notice to the parties concerned, or those
entitled to receive such notice, as if he were proceeding under
a commission to take testimony, under former practice. He.