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(u). The Sheriff of Washington County shall receive an annual
salary of $3,000 plus $1,200 for expenses, which may be increased
to $l,400 in the discretion of the County Commissioners, and $600
a year for the Sheriff's automobile to be used by him in the per-
formance of his duties. He may appoint an office Deputy at an
annual salary to be set by the County Commissioners of Washington
County; and two Deputies who shall each receive an annual salary of
at least $2,400 and $50 per month each for the use of their auto-
mobiles; one secretary who shall receive an annual salary of $1,800;
a chief warden of the jail, who shall receive an annual salary of at
least $2,400; an assistant warden who shall receive an annual salary
of at least $2,100; an attorney to the Sheriff who shall receive annual
compensation in the amount of $600; and a cook who shall receive
at least $1,800 per year. Sheriff may appoint such additional Special
Deputies as he may deem necessary with the approval of the County
Commisioners as to number and compensation. The salaries specified
hereinabove in this sub-section except as to the Sheriff, shall be
deemed to be minimum salaries and may be increased from time to
time by the County Commissioners of Washington County.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1955.

Approved April 11, 1955.

CHAPTER 401
(House Bill 692)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Sections 106, 107
and 108 of Article 21 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1954
Supplement), title "Conveyancing", sub-title "Defective Convey-
ances", to make valid deeds, mortgages, bonds of conveyances, bills
of sale, and all other conveyances of real and personal property, or
of any interest therein or agreements, relating thereto, defective
in acknowledgment or in the certificate thereof, or when the official
character of the officer taking the acknowledgment has not been
stated in the body of the certificate or certified to, as required by
law, or when the conveyance or agreement has not been witnessed
or sealed or when any deed heretofore made to or from a corpora-
tion prior to the payment of bonus tax which was afterward paid,
or any mortgage or assignment of mortgage defectively sworn to
or not sworn to at all.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Sections 106, 107 and 108 of Article 21 of the Annotated Code

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