986                             LAWS OF MARYLAND                      [CH. 412

5 of Article 25A of the Annotated Code (1957 Edition as amended),
whether to enact, amend, or repeal a local law. The laws in this
compilation shall be arranged as required by Section 7 of Article 25A,
herein enacted, and these laws and this compilation are subject to the
other requirements and provisions of Section 7, including their pub-
lication and indexing with the laws enacted by the General Assembly
for its Regular Session of 1968. However, any such laws already in-
cluded in a regularly and officially published county code, or in a regu-
larly and officially published supplement thereto, shall be deemed as
already published FURNISHED and not included within the require-
ments of this section if copies of the code or of the supplement, as the
case may be, have been furnished and delivered as required in Section
7 of Article 25A, herein enacted, for copies of the annual compilations
of laws.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1,1967.

Approved April 21, 1967.

CHAPTER 412
(Senate Bill 27)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 3 of
Article 89B of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1961 Replace-
ment Volume), title "State Roads," subtitle "In General," and to
add new Section 15A to Article 64A of the ANNOTATED Code OF
MARYLAND (1964 REPLACEMENT VOLUME), title "Merit
System," to follow immediately after Section 15 thereof, to provide
that AN ANNUAL LIST OF all contracts for personal services
entered into by the State Roads Commission be submitted to the
State Commissioner of Personnel for review and approval and
that an annual list of such approvals be submitted by the Commis-
sioner to the Fiscal Research Bureau, for review by the Committee
on Taxation and Fiscal Matters.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 3 of Article 89B of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1961 Replacement Volume), title "State Roads," subtitle "In Gen-
eral," be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments,
to read as follows:

Article 89B

All records of said Commission shall be public records, and the
Commission shall annually, make to the Governor a detailed report
of its official transactions, and of all its expenditures and of all
liabilities incurred by it. The said Commission may employ such
chief engineer, assistant engineers, professional or technical experts,
surveyors, agents, assistants, clerks, employees and laborers, skilled
and unskilled, and also such advisors and consultants, as it may
deem requisite for the performance and execution of the powers