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applicable to the payment of his claim, is based. Upon such further
application the issuance of the citation shall be in the discretion of
the orphans' court, and no such application shall be made less than
three months after the denial of any previous application. If upon
any accounting it shall appear that an executor or administrator has
failed to pay a claim for funeral expenses, the amount of which
has been fixed and determined by the orphans' court as above set
forth or upon such accounting he shall not be allowed for the pay-
ment of any debt or claim against the decedent until said claim
for funeral expenses has been discharged in full; and upon failure
of any executor or administrator to pay any claim for funeral
expenses, after an order so to do, he may, upon application, be
removed.

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

Approved January 30, 1959.

CHAPTER 8
(House Bill 16)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments, Section 4 of
Article 89B of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1957 Edition),
title "State Roads", sub-title "In General", removing therefrom
an obsolete reference to the compensation and service of the
resident maintenance engineers employed by the State Roads
Commission.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 4 of Article 89B of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1957 Edition), title "State Roads," sub-title "In General," be and it
is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, and to read
as follows:

4. Resident maintenance engineers.

All resident maintenance engineers employed by the State Roads
Commission on June 1, 1945, shall continue in the same classification
unless removed for inefficiency or neglect of duty in accordance
with the provisions of Article 64A of the Annotated Code of Mary-
land or promoted in accordance with the provisions of said article.
The State Roads Commission shall also have power and authority
to appoint, in accordance with the provisions of said Article 64A,
such other resident maintenance engineers as it may in its discretion
deem necessary or desirable. [The said resident maintenance engi-
neers shall be paid the same salary or compensation as is paid to
junior assistant highway engineers, grade I, as prescribed by the
regulations of the State Employees' Standard Salary Board, and

Explanation: Italics indicate new matter added to existing law.

[Brackets] indicate matter stricken from existing law.
CAPITALS indicate amendments to bill.
Strike out indicates matter stricken out of bill.