WM. PRESTON LANE, JR., GOVERNOR. 1663

287.

(a) The Register of Wills of Baltimore City and of
Frederick and Montgomery Counties shall be entitled to
receive annually a salary of not less than $3, 600 and not
more than $7, 500, to be fixed and determined by the Board
of Public Works and the Register shall be entitled to the
salary so fixed and no more.

The Board of Public Works in fixing the annual salary
of the Register of Wills of Baltimore City and of Fred-
erick County shall be guided in the exercise of its discre-
tion in regard thereto, by the population of said City, or
County, determined by the last official United States
Census, by the current representation of said City or
County in the House of Delegates of Maryland, by the
dollar volume of total fees and taxes collected and of excess
fees turned over to the State for each of the preceding five
(5) years by the office of the Register of Wills for which
the salary is being fixed and by other pertinent data which
has relation to the reasonableness of the salary in relation
to the work done and volume handled by the office, it being
the intent of this section that the said Register shall
receive a fair and adequate compensation for the effort
and duties required of him by his office and the volume
and character of work done by him as Register in propor-
tion to the salary fixed by the Legislature for other Regis-
ters of Wills in this State.

(b) The Register of Wills of the several counties of the
State shall be entitled to receive annually the respective
salaries hereinafter set forth and no more as follows:

(1) The Register of Wills for Calvert County shall be
entitled to receive $2, 500 annually.

(2) The Registers of Wills for Caroline, Charles, Wi-
comico, Worcester, St. Mary's and Somerset Counties shall
each be entitled to receive the annual salary of $3, 000.

(3) The Register of Wills of Garrett County shall be
entitled to receive the annual salary of $3, 200.

(4) The Register of Wills of Dorchester, Harford, Kent,
Queen Anne's, Cecil and Talbot Counties shall each be
entitled to receive the annual salary of $3, 600.

(5) The Register of Wills of Anne Arundel, Howard,
and Prince George's Counties shall each be entitled to
receive the annual salary of $4, 000.

(6) The Register of Wills of Carroll County shall be
entitled to receive the annual salary of $4, 200.