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Article, to be known respectively as Sections 178-A, 178-B
and 178-0 and to read as follows:

'178-A. That upon the taking effect of this Act, all of the
powers and duties now exercised and performed by the State
Fire Marshal, his deputy or assistants, under and by virtue
of the provisions of Sections 222 to 228, inclusive, of Article
23 of the Annotated Code of Maryland, title 'Corporations/
sub-title 'Fire Marshal/ and all of the records, documents,
unexpended balances and other property and things of or
appertaining to the said State Fire Marshal or his Depart-
ment,, shall be transferred to and devolved upon the State
Insurance Commissioner, and the office of the State Fire Mar-
shal shall thereupon be abolished.

'178-B. That in order to carry out and perform the powers
and duties transferred to and devolved upon the State In-
surance Commissioner by Section 178-A, the said State
Insurance Commissioner is authorized to appoint and remove
at pleasure an additional deputy, whose duties and powers
shall be such as are now prescribed by law for the deputy
fire marshal, at such compensation as may be approved by the
Board of Public Works, not exceeding, however, $2,000 per
annum, and such additional clerical assistance, receiving such
compensation, as the said commissioner, with the approval
of the Board of Public Works, may deem necessary; provided,
however, that the total compensation and expenses authorized
by this Act shall not exceed in the aggregate the sum of
$4,000 per annum.

'178-C. That all Acts and part of Acts inconsistent with
this Act, be and the same hereby are repealed to the extent
of such inconsistency.

'Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect on the first day of June, 1916/ " [Which was read and
adopted.] [Which favorable report was adopted, which was
read the second time.]

Two-thirds of all the Senators voting in the affirmative, the
rules were suspended by yeas and nays as follows, and Bill
put upon its third reading and final passage:

AFFIRMATIVE.

Holmead

Johnson

Jones

Joy

Kaufman

Legg

NEGATIVE—None.

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Messrs.—•
President	Chesley
Allen	Collier
Archer	Cooper
Bennett	Duvall
Bomberger	Frick
Brown	Harrison

Mudd	Warfield
Norris	Williams
Ogden	Zihlman
Parsons
Shepherd
Speicher	Total-r-27