942 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 786

the office, after first deducting therefrom the necessary
expenses of the office, including salaries of deputies and
clerks, books, stationery, office supplies and other necessary
and customary expenses of doing business. If there shall
be any excess of the fees, receipts and emoluments of the
office in any years, after deduction of expenses and salar-
ies, including that of the Register, all such excess shall be
paid to the Treasurer of the State. If the fees and re-
ceipts of the office shall be insufficient in any year to pay
all or any part of the authorized salary of any Register, the
deficiency shall be paid to the said Register by the Comp-
troller from funds provided for that purpose in the State
budget.

The Registers of Wills of Baltimore City and of the
several counties shall, respectively, devote their full work-
ing time to the duties of their office.

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

Approved April 27, 1945.

CHAPTER 786.

(Senate Bill 246)

AN ACT to propose an amendment to Section 44 of Article
4 of the Constitution of the State of Maryland, title
"Judiciary Department, " sub-title "Part VII: —Sher-
iffs, " relating to the election and compensation of Sher-
iffs and to provide for the submission of said amendment
to the qualified voters of the State of Maryland for
adoption or rejection.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
(three-fifths of all the members of each of the two Houses
concurring), That the following be and the same is hereby
proposed as an amendment to Section 44 of Article 4 of
the Constitution of the State of Maryland, title "Judiciary
Department, " sub-title "Part VII: —Sheriffs, " the same, if
adopted by the legally qualified voters of the State, as
herein provided, to become Section 44 of Article 4 of the
Constitution of the State of Maryland.

44. There shall be elected in each county in the year
1946 and in every fourth year thereafter, one person, resi-
dent in said county, above the age of twenty-five years