THEODORE R. MCKELDIN, GOVERNOR 651

hundred and fifty dollars a month] at an annual salary
to be determined by the County Commissioners AT A FIG-
URE NOT LESS THAN THREE THOUSAND DOLLARS
($3,000.00) PER YEAR to conduct the work of this
Bureau. The County Commissioners of Allegany County
are hereby directed, authorized and empowered to pay
such necessary expenses for the maintenance of this
Bureau, including rent, as in their opinion are reason-
able and consistent with a proper conduct of the Bureau,
and shall levy for the same, including the salary
of the County investigator, as expenses of the State's
Attorney's office. These bills must be presented direct to
the County Commissioners, made out and sworn to on the
regular forms now in use by the County Commissioners,
and must be certified to by the State's Attorney, and all
false swearing in such reports and affidavits shall be deemed
perjury and punished as such.

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

Approved April 6, 1953.

CHAPTER 348
(House Bill 545)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section
81(b) of the Charter of the City of Cumberland (1950
Edition being Article 1A of the Code of Public Local
Laws of Maryland), title "City of Cumberland", sub-
title "Assessments and Borrowing Power", said section
having been amended by Chapter 421 of the Acts of 1951,
increasing the amount of the tax which the Mayor and
City Council of Cumberland are authorized to levy and
collect on the assessable property therein.

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