410                              Laws of Maryland                       Ch. 146

Replacement Volume), title "Clerks of Courts," subtitle "General
Duties of Clerks," to increase the maximum amount of salary
which can be set by the Board of Public Works for Clerks of
Courts in the State and to correct an error therein.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Sections 23(a) and (d) of Article 17 of the Annotated Code
of Maryland (1966 Replacement Volume), title "Clerks of Courts,"
subtitle "General Duties of Clerks," be and they are hereby repealed
and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

23.

(a) The clerk of each of the circuit courts of this State [,]
in each county shall be entitled to receive annually a salary of not less
than $6,000.00 and not more than [$17,000.00] $20,000.00 to be fixed
and determined in each instance by the Board of Public Works of
this State on the basis of the relative volume of business and receipts
in each such office. Each clerk of the court shall be entitled to the
salary fixed and no more.

(d) The clerk of each of the law and criminal and equity courts
of Baltimore City shall be entitled to receive annually a salary of not
less than $12,000 and not more than [$17,000] $20,000 to be fixed
and determined in each instance by the Board of Public Works of
this State on the basis of the relative public service of each such office.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the provisions of this
Act shall not be construed to extend or apply to any clerks of courts
in office on the effective date of this Act, but the provisions of this
Act shall take effect with the next term of office.

Sec 3. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
July 1, 1970.

Approved April 15, 1970

CHAPTER 146
(House Bill 19)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments, Section 66(g)
of Article 23 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1966 Replace-
ment Volume), title "Corporations," subtitle "Consolidation,
Merger and Other Transfers of Property," to provide that, where
property, the title to which may be affected by the recording
of an instrument among the land records, is transferred by articles
of consolidation, articles of merger, sale, lease, exchange or other
transfer of all or substantially all the property and assets of a
corporation of this State, the Department of Assessments and
Taxation may, in order to maintain the currency of the land
assessment records in the several counties, require that a deed
reference or other description sufficient to identify such property
be furnished to said Department and sent by said Department to
the chief assessor of each county in which such property is located.