Theodore R. McKeldin, Governor

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Salary Increases for State Employees and Forty

Hour Work Week

Gonoral Fund Appropriation, &h? supplement

iag salaries ef State Employees m accord

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, GENERAL FUND APPROPRIATION, FOR

THE PURPOSE, ON OR AFTER OCTOBER

1, 1956, AND PRIOR TO JANUARY 1, 1957,

OF SUPPLEMENTING THE SALARIES OF

STATE EMPLOYEES BY ADDING $260.00

TO THE EXISTING SALARY SCALE UP

TO AND INCLUDING SCALE NO. 28;/FOR

PAYMENTS REQUIRED AS A RESULT OF

RESTUDY AND PAY ADJUSTMENTS

PURSUANT TO THE PROVISIONS OF SEC-

TION 25 OF ARTICLE 64A OF THE ANNO-

TATED CODE OF MARYLAND (1955 SUP-

PLEMENT), TITLE "MERIT SYSTEM";

FOR THE ELIMINATION OF ARBITRARY

SALARY DIFFERENTIALS IN STATE EM-

PLOYMENT; FOR COMPARABLE IN-

CREASES CONSISTENT WITH SUCH RE-

VISED SCALES EXCEPT WHERE THE

SALARY OF A POSITION IS SPECIFI-

CALLY FIXED BY STATUTE; AND TO

PROVIDE FOR A FIVE DAY FORTY HOUR

WORK WEEK; THE APPROPRIATION TO

BE ALLOCATED BY BUDGET AMEND-

MENT TO THE VARIOUS STATE AGEN-

CIES AS MAY BE NECESSARY TO SUP-

PLEMENT THE AGENCY APPROPRI-

ATION INCLUDED IN THIS BUDGET.

NOT IN EXCESS OF $10,000.00 OF THIS SUM

SHALL BE AVAILABLE TO THE STATE

EMPLOYEES STANDARD SALARY

BOARD FOR THE PURPOSE OF MAKING

SUCH STUDIES AS MAY BE REQUIRED

TO EFFECT ALLOCATION OF THE SUM

HEREBY APPROPRIATED............................

4,600,000

From Special and Federal Funds for supple-

menting salaries of State Employees in ac-

cordance with revisions in standard scales

recommended by the Standard Salary Board

and where no scale exists comparable in-

creases consistent with recommended stand-

ard scale revisions except where the salary of