Ch. 274                             MARVIN MANDEL, Governor                                 651

(2)  The State's Attorney may employ [[a Deputy or]] AN Assistant, who
shall be a member of the local bar in good standing. THE STATE'S ATTORNEY
MAY ALSO EMPLOY A CRIMINAL INVESTIGATOR AND AN
ADMINISTRATIVE COORDINATOR. The County Commissioners shall fix the
compensation of the Assistant State's Attorney, THE INVESTIGATOR AND
THE COORDINATOR, who shall INVESTIGATE CASES, PREPARE THE
DOCKETS AND [[present such cases to the Kent County Grand Jury and
perform such other acts and duties in relation to the Grand Jury, Circuit and
District Courts of Kent County, as deemed necessary]] PERFORM SUCH ACTS
AND DUTIES AS THE STATE'S ATTORNEY MAY REQUEST.

(3)   After January 1, [1972] 1973, the State's Attorney's allowance for
clerical hire, rental expenses and general office expenses is [four thousand dollars
($4,000)] FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS ($5,000). All these expenses shall be
paid by the submission of vouchers therefore to, and after approval by, the Board
of County Commissioners.

(4)  The State's Attorney's special fund allowance for the cost of making
investigations is [[[]]two thousand dollars ($2,000)[[]]] [[ONE THOUSAND
DOLLARS ($1,000)]]. Expenditures from this allowance shall be accounted for to
the Board of County Commissioners at the end of each year, and any balance
remaining in the fund at the end of the fiscal year reverts to the general fund of
the county.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That the provisions of this
Act shall not be construed to extend or apply to the State's Attorney in office on
the effective date of this Act, but the provisions of this Act shall take effect with
the next term of office.

SECTION 3. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act is hereby
declared to be an emergency measure and necessary for the immediate preservation
of the public health and safety and having been passed by a yea and nay vote
supported by three-fifths of all 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 7, 1973.

CHAPTER 274
(Senate Bill 1105)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 5-118 of Article 21 of
the Annotated Code of Maryland (1966 Replacement Volume and 1972 Interim
Supplement), title "Real Property," subtitle "Rules of Construction," to
provide for the creation of certain conservation easements and the purposes for
which they may be created; to provide the manner of enforcement of such
easements where they are not granted for the benefit of any dominant tract of
land and that as such they shall be inheritable and assignable; to provide for the
extinguishment or release of such easement; to provide that in a devise of any
property for a certain public use and the failure to specify a devisee, or to
specify a devisee legally incapable to receive the property, that the devise passes
to the Maryland Historical Trust or the Maryland Environmental Trust; and
relating to conservation easements in general.