MARVIN MANDEL, Governor                         1263

($6,400.00) and seven thousand dollars ($7,000.00) SIX THOUSAND
TWO HUNDRED ($6,200.00), all payable bi-weekly. The chair-
man and vice-chairman shall perform such duties as the Com-
mission shall from time to time designate. The Commission
shall, in June 1968, and June every year thereafter, at its first
meeting in that month or as soon thereafter as possible, elect from
among its members a chairman and a vice-chairman, one to be from
Prince George's County and one to be from Montgomery County,
who shall serve for one year or until their successors are elected
and qualified. The office of chairman, and the office of vice-chairman,
shall rotate between the counties, that is to say, at any annual
election the chairman for the then ensuing year's term shall be
from the county different from the county from whence came
the chairman for the expiring year's term, and the same provision
shall apply to the office of vice-chairman; provided, however, that
upon a unanimous vote of the membership this provision may be
waived for one year, but not for two years in succession. If a
vacancy exists in the position of chairman or vice-chairman, the Com-
mission shall elect a new chairman or vice-chairman for the remain-
ing portion of the one year term of such office, and if the vacancy
in the position of chairman or vice-chairman involves or was occa-
sioned by that officer's resignation or removal for any reason from
membership on the Commission, the election to fill the unexpired
portion of the chairman's or vice-chairman's term, as the case may
be, shall be held only after the Commission vacancy has been filled.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act is hereby declared
to be an emergency measure and necessary for the immediate pres-
ervation of the public health and safety and having been passed by a
yea and nay vote supported by three-fifths of the members elected to
each of the two houses of the General Assembly, the same shall take
effect from the date of its passage.

Approved May 2, 1969.

CHAPTER 541
(House Bill 1315)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 40(w)
of Article 10 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1968 Replace-
ment Volume), title "Attorneys At Law and Attorneys In Fact,"
providing for an increase in the Wicomico County State's At-
torney's SALARY AND expense account.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 40 (w) of Article 10 of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1968 Replacement Volume), title "Attorneys At Law and Attorneys
In Fact," subtitle "State's Attorney," be and it is hereby repealed
and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

40.

(w) In Wicomico County, (1) the State's Attorney's salary is
eight thousand dollars ($8,000) TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS
($10,000).