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fourteen thousand dollars ($14,000,) per annum, and the salary of the
Chief Judge of the Orphans' Court of Baltimore City shall be fourteen
thousand five hundred dollars ($14,500.) per annum. Every associate
judge of the Orphans' Court of Baltimore City shall be paid, after
the termination of active service, if he is then at least 60 years of age
or when he shall attain 60 years of age, a pension or salary calculated
at the rate of [four hundred and fifty dollars ($450.00)] seven hun-
dred dollars ($700) per annum for each year, or any part thereof,
of active service, but the maximum pension or salary for such service
shall not exceed [forty-five hundred dollars ($4,500.00)] seven thou-
sand dollars ($7,000.) per annum. Every chief judge of the Orphans'
Court of Baltimore City shall be paid, after the termination of active
service, if he is then at least 60 years of age or when he shall attain
60 years of age, a pension or salary calculated at the rate of seven
hundred and twenty-five dollars ($725.) per annum for each year, or
any part thereof, of active service, but the maximum pension or
salary for such service shall not exceed seven thousand, two hundred
and fifty dollars ($7,250.) per annum. The said pension or salary shall
be paid by the City of Baltimore in the same manner as the salaries
of the judges of the Orphans' Court of said city are paid.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall not affect the
salaries and pensions of the several judges of the Orphans' Court of
Baltimore City, who are in office at the time this Act is enacted, for
the remainder of the terms in which they are then serving. This Act
shall take effect as of the first day of the term of office of those judges
elected as members of the Orphans' Court of Baltimore City at the
regular quadrennial election in the month of November 1966.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1,1965.

Approved April 8, 1965.

CHAPTER 265
(House Bill 148)

AN ACT to add new Sections 7, 8, and 9 to Article 19A of the An-
notated Code of Maryland (1957 Edition and 1964 Supplement),
title "Conflicts of Interest," and to follow immediately after Sec-
tion 6 thereof, providing that certain contracts of the State of
Maryland shall contain a provision that no employee of the State
of Maryland, or any department, commission, agency or branch
thereof, whose duties as such employee include matters relative
to or affecting the subject matter of said contract, shall while
such employee, be or become an employee of the party or parties
so contracting with the State of Maryland, providing further that
the State shall not be liable on the said contracts which do not
contain said provisions, prohibiting said employees of the State
from becoming employees as aforesaid of parties so contracting
with the State, and establishing penalties for violation of these
sections.