WM. PRESTON LANE, JR., GOVERNOR. 715

CHAPTER 285
(Senate Bill 441)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Sec-
tion 798 of the Article 22 of the Code of Public Local
Laws of Maryland (1930 Edition), as amended by
Chapter 483 of the Acts of 1939, relating to the com-
pensation of the head of the Bureau of Identification
and Criminal Investigation of Washington County, and
the expenses of said Bureau.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Genera I Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 798 of Article 22 of the Code of Public Local
Laws of Maryland (1930 Edition), as amended by Chapter
483 of the Acts of 1939, be and it is hereby repealed and
re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

798. It shall be the duty of the State's Attorney for
Washington County to maintain a Bureau of Identification
and Criminal Investigation, and be shall employ, subject
to the approval of the County Commissioners of Washing-
ton County, a competent man at a salary to be fixed
by the County Commissioners, to conduct the work of said
Bureau, the man so appointed to be capable of doing
finger print, photographic, criminal investigation, and
detective work, and to devote so much of his time as the
State's Attorney may direct to criminal identification and
criminal investigation work in Hagerstown and Washing-
ton County, under the direction and supervision of the
State's Attorney. The County Commissioners of Wash-
ington County shall also pay printing, stationery, tele-
phone, stamps, traveling expenses, and other expenses
that may be necessary for the maintenance of said Bureau
not to exceed Forty Dollars ($40. 00) per month, and shall
levy for the same as expenses of the State's Attorney's
office. Bills for all expenses of said Bureau must be pre-
sented direct to the County Commissioners for payment by
the County Commissioners, made out and sworn to on the
regular forms in use by the County Commissioners and
must be certified to by the State's Attorney, and all false
swearing in such affidavits shall be deemed perjury and be
punished as such.

An office shall be provided for the said Bureau at Police
Headquarters in the City of Hagerstown, Maryland.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall
take effect June 1, 1949.

Approved April 22, 1949.