J. MILLARD TAWES, GOVERNOR                          1023

engineman shall after [July 1, 1947] January 1, 1960 be not less
than $3,700.00 [$2,900.00] per year, payable in equal monthly install-
ments [except that any such engineman employed on January 1, 1954,
shall, from and after that date, receive not less than $3,200.00 per
year; provided, further, that any engineman beginning at a salary
of $2,900.00 per year after January 1, 1954, shall be paid $100.00
additional for each year of service thereafter subject to said maxi-
mum of $3,200.00 per year].

(b)  All enginemen appointed under this sub-title shall be entitled
to 15 days annual vacation, at the full rate of pay.

(c)  The County Commissioners, upon the recommendation of the
several Volunteer Fire Companies, shall appoint a relief engineman
for each of the several Volunteer Fire Companies to substitute for
the regular engineman when they are off on vacation or sick. The
pay of said relief engineman shall be computed at the annual rate of
$2,900.00.

(d)  Persons now employed as enginemen of the several Volunteer
Fire Companies shall be appointed by the County Commissioners in
preference to all other applicants to fill the positions created by this
sub-title. The County Commissioners may pass rules and regulations
setting forth the duties of each of the enginemen appointed under
this sub-title.

(e)  The County Commissioners may retire any engineman of a
Volunteer Fire Company who shall after June 1, 1939, become per-
manently disabled while in the active performance of his duties, or
who has performed faithful services as an engineman for a period
of not less than twenty (20) [consecutive] years' service prior to
June 1, 1939, to be included and has reached the age of sixty (60)
years, and place the engineman so retired upon a pension roll and
pay him one-half of his regular monthly salary. Any engineman who
retires with less than twenty (20) [consecutive] years' service shall
receive one-fortieth of his regular monthly salary for each year of
service. No engineman shall be retired before reaching the age of
sixty (60) until he shall have been examined by a board of three
physicians of the State Department of Health and its findings as
to disability assigned as a reason for retirement shall have been
certified to the County Commissioners.

(f)  This Section (329) shall not apply to the City of Annapolis.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1959.

Approved April 28, 1959.

CHAPTER 677
(House Bill 659)

AN ACT to provide for the positive and definite establishment of
the boundary line between Montgomery and Prince George's
Counties.

Explanation: Italics indicate new matter added to existing law.

[Brackets] indicate matter stricken from existing law.

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Strike out indicates matter stricken out of bill.