J. MILLARD TAWES, Governor                     1205

1918, be and is hereby authorized and empowered to create or estab-
lish a merit system or classified service to include all of its em-
ployees except [the Chief Engineer, Secretary and/or Treasurer, [and
to] the general manager, if one be appointed, the heads of the
several departments, and part time, temporary, or contract employees.

In addition, the Commission may except from the classified service

or include therein, as in its discretion it may determine from time

to time, the attorneys on its legal staff. The Commission may ap-
point or promote an employee in the classified service to the office
of general manager or to be a department head, or may desig-
nate a classified employee as the incumbent of any such office
on an acting basis, and provide for the employee's retention in the
classified service in the position or grade from which he was ap-
pointed or promoted and continue to except the positions of gen-
eral manager and department heads, as such, from the classified
service. The Commission may make such rules and regulations as
are necessary and proper to carry out the provisions of this sub-
heading. Said Commission may abolish, add to, change or amend
such rules and regulations; provide, however, that all such rules
and regulations and changes thereof shall be approved by the Com-
missioner of State Employment and Registration of Maryland, who
is hereinafter called the State Commissioner of Personnel.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1966.

Approved May 6, 1966.

CHAPTER 680
(House Bill 444)

AN ACT to add new Section 18A to the Code of Public Local Laws of
Carroll County (1965 Edition, being Article 7 of the Code of
Public Local Laws of Maryland), title "Carroll County," subtitle
"County Commissioners," to follow immediately after Section 18
thereof, as last amended by Chapter 283 of the Acts of 1947, to
authorize the County Commissioners to purchase property for the
local historical society.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That new Section 18A be and it is hereby added to the Code of Public
Local Laws of Carroll County (1965 Edition, being Article 7 of the
Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland), title "Carroll County,"
subtitle "County Commissioners," to follow immediately after Sec-
tion 18 thereof, as last amended by Chapter 283 of the Acts of
1947, and to read as follows:

18A.

The County Commissioners of Carroll County are authorized to
purchase property for the use of the Historical Society of Carroll
County, Inc., and to expend therefor a sum not to exceed $30,000.
The Commissioners are also authorized to grant the title to such
property to The Historical Society of Carroll County, Inc., without
consideration.