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it into the Annotated Code of Maryland, making the necessary
rewording of the section as needed.

Whereas, The General Assembly of Maryland wishes to correct a
confusing and ambiguous situation in Article 77 of the Annotated
Code of Maryland.

The laws in Article 77 concerning public education were revised
by Chapter 405 of the Acts of 1969. By its own terms, that Act pro-
vided that any other and subsequent Acts enacted at the same ses-
sion and pertaining to public education were to be considered as
law and to prevail over Chapter 405.

Chapter 675 of the Acts of 1969 was another such enactment.
However, because of the revision in the earlier Act and the difficulty
of merging Chapter 675 into the language of the earlier Act, Chapter
675 of 1969 has since been carried only in an editorial note and not
in the formal language of Article 77. For this reason, it is desirable
to incorporate the provisions of Chapter 675 of 1969 into the language
of Article 77 of the Code and to repeal Chapter 675; now, therefore,

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 31 of Article 77 of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1969 Replacement Volume and 1971 Supplement), title "Public Edu-
cation," subtitle "Chapter 3. State Superintendent of Schools," be
and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments; and that
Chapter 675 of the Acts of 1969 be and it is hereby repealed, and
all to read as follows:

31.

[All administrative and supervisory personnel who shall transfer
from local school systems] All professional personnel who shall have
been formerly employed by local school systems and by the public
library systems in the State and who shall be appointed to positions
in the State Department of Education shall be given credit as em-
ployees of the State Department of Education for the years of serv-
ice rendered as employees of the local school systems from which
they shall have transferred, for the purposes of establishing com-
pensation rates and the basic rates for vacation and sick leave credit
earnings.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
July 1, 1972.

Approved May 26, 1972.

CHAPTER 552
(House Bill 791)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 148 of
Article 77 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1969 Replacement
Volume), title "Public Education," subtitle "Chapter 13. Non-
Public Schools," and to repeal in its entirety Chapter 647 of the
Acts of 1969, that Chapter relating to contracts of enrollment in
non-public schools; to take a presently uncodified law, passed at