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DOLLARS($10.000) and not more than $20,000.00 [[] ]][[TWENTY-TWO
THOUSAND DOLLARS ($22.000)]] TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND
DOLLARS ($25,000) 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 II I 11 of not less than
[[$12,000]] FOURTEEN THOUSAND DOLLARS ($14.000) and not more than
[[$20,000]][[]]] [[TWENTY-TWO THOUSAND DOLLARS ($22.000)]]
TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS ($25.000) 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.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That the provisions of
this Act shall not be construed to extend or apply to the salary of any clerk of the
circuit court in office on the effective date of this Act, but the provisions of this
Act concerning the salary of the clerks of the circuit courts shall take effect at the
beginning of the next following term of office.

SECTION 3. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take
effect July 1, 1973.

Approved May 7, 1973.

CHAPTER 213
(Senate Bill 122)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 1 of Article 62 of the
Annotated Code of Maryland (1972 Replacement Volume), title "Marriages,"
to require that a marriage must be between a man and a woman in order to be
valid.

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That Section 1 of Article 62 of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1972 Replacement Volume), title "Marriages," be and it is hereby repealed and
re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

1.

ONLY A MARRIAGE BETWEEN A MAN AND A WOMAN IS VALID
IN THIS STATE. If any person within this State shall marry within any of the
degrees of kindred or affinity expressed in the following table, the marriage shall
be void.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take
effect July 1, 1973.

Approved May 7, 1973.