1150 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 471

receive $1, 000. 00 per year in addition to the compensation
received when actually sitting as a substitute as hereinafter
provided, and except the substitute magistrate appointed
for Kent County, who shall receive Five Hundred Dollars
($500. 00) per year in addition to the compensation re-
ceived when actually sitting as a substitute, as hereinafter
provided, and except the substitute magistrate appointed
for Prince George's County, who shall receive $1, 300. 00
per year, in addition to the compensation received when
actually sitting as a substitute as hereinafter provided.
And in Wicomico County said substitute trial magistrate
shall receive a salary of $800. 00 per year.

In the event of the temporary absence or inability of a
trial magistrate, the substitute trial magistrate shall serve
in his place and stead during the period of his absence or
inability, and shall have the same power and authority
and be subject to the same duties and responsibilities as
the said trial magistrate. He shall receive from the County
Commissioners the same pro-rata amount for his com-
pensation and the same expenses as would have been re-
ceived under this sub-title by the trial magistrate whose
absence or inability caused the substitution, and the
salary of the trial magistrate so causing the substitution
shall be diminished by a sum necessary to compensate the
substitute as herein provided, for any such period of ab-
sence or inability in excess of 15 days in any one year.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act is
hereby declared to be an emergency measure and necessary
for the immediate preservation of the public health and
safety and having been passed by a yea and nay vote,
supported by three-fifths of all the members elected to
each of the two Houses of the General Assembly, the same
shall take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 29, 1949.

CHAPTER 471
(Senate Bill 386)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Sec-
tion 178 of Article 23 of the Annotated Code of Mary-
land, (1939 Edition), title "Corporations, " sub-title
"Gas and Electric Light Companies, " relating to the use
of mains, conduits, pipes, or other structures of gas light
companies.