J. MILLARD TAWES, GOVERNOR                               169

land (1957 Edition), title "Pensions", sub-title "Social Security
Benefits", be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amend-
ments, to read as follows:

43.

(c) Upon receiving evidence satisfactory to him that with respect
to any such referendum the conditions specified in Section 218 (d)
(3) of the Social Security Act have been met, the [Governor]
Administrative Head of State Agency CHIEF OF THE DIVISION
OF SOCIAL SECURITY IN THE EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT
SYSTEM shall so certify to the Secretary of Health, Education and
Welfare.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1961.

Approved March 23, 1961.

CHAPTER 178
(House Bill 329)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 502 of the
Code of Public Local Laws of Wicomico County (1959 Edition,
being Article 23 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland),
title "Wicomico County", sub-title "Sheriff", relating to the sums
allowed to the Sheriff of Wicomico County for matron service and
for a cook to the county jail.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 502 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Wicomico County
(1959 Edition, being Article 23 of the Code of Public Local Laws of
Maryland), title "Wicomico County", sub-title "Sheriff", be and it
is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as
follows:

502.

The County Commissioners for Wicomico County shall allow the
Sheriff of Wicomico County each year: First—[the sum of One
Thousand Five Hundred Dollars ($1,500.00) a year] Such sum as
the County Commissioners may deem necessary each year for matron
service in managing the domestic economy of the jail [; Second—A
sum not exceeding One Thousand Three Hundred Dollars ($1,300.00)
a year] and for a cook to the jail; [Third] Second—-The actual sum
of money expended by the Sheriff in purchasing food, necessary
clothing, laundry, etc., for the prisoners at the jail, which expendi-
tures shall not exceed Fifty Cents (50¢) per day for each prisoner,
provided that no allowance for such expenditures made by the
Sheriff, as aforesaid, shall be paid or credited to the said Sheriff or
for his account unless the same shall be reported under oath to the
County Commissioners each month in writing, which oath shall show
all the expenditures and that they are correct and have been honestly
and lawfully incurred under each of the provisions as above set
forth, and that the Sheriff himself has not derived any profit from