WM. PRESTON LANE, JR., GOVERNOR. 619

in the Election District wherein the said Fire Company or
companies are located.

327. The County Commissioners of Anne Arundel
County are hereby authorized and empowered to pay the
sum of Forty-four Thousand Dollars ($44, 000. 00) to the
several Volunteer Fire Companies for the purchase, main-
tenance, operation and replacement reserve for fire fight-
ing equipment, truck quarters and chauffeurs dormi-
tories, provided, however, that the tax levied in the
City of Annapolis shall be paid to the Mayor and Aldermen
of the City of Annapolis, who shall pay the same to the
several volunteer fire companies of the City of Annapolis,
for the purchase, maintenance and replacement reserve
for fire fighting equipment only; no money shall be spent
for parade or dress uniforms or for any other purpose
than provided in this sub-title. No such payment shall be
made unless the fire fighting apparatus is property equip-
ped with the necessary fire fighting appliances for the pro-
tection of the area in which they operate. No Volunteer
Fire Company shall receive any payments under this sub-
title, unless it is equipped with the fire alarm system, ap-
proved by the County Commissioners of Anne Arundel
County and the Mayor and Alderman of the City of Anna-
polis for the Sixth District of Anne Arundel County.

329. (a) The County Commissioners of Anne Arundel
County shall appoint and dismiss, upon the recommenda-
tion of the said Volunteer Fire Companies, two chauffeurs
for each of said companies, and in addition thereto, the
necessary relief chauffeurs to substitute for the regular
chauffeurs when the latter are off on vacation or sick, as
hereinafter provided. The County Commissioners are here-
by directed to levy a special tax in each Election District,
sufficient to pay the salaries of the chauffeurs and relief
chauffeurs of the several Volunteer Fire Companies and
to pay the salary of each chauffeur and relief chauffeur
from the tax levied in the Election District in which the
Volunteer Fire Department employing the chauffeur or
relief chauffeur is located. The salary for each chauffeur
shall, after July 1, 1947, be $2, 100. 00 per year, payable in
equal monthly installments, except that any such chauffeur
employed on June 1, 1947 shall, from and after that date,
receive not less than $2, 400. 00 per year; provided further,
that any chauffeur beginning at a salary of $2, 100. 00 per
year after June 1, 1947, shall be paid $100. 00 additional
for each year of service thereafter, subject to said maxi-
mum of $2, 400. 00 per year.