760                                        LAWS OF MARYLAND                                Ch. 347

1-18.

The County Commissioners of Cecil County shall receive an annual salary of
thirty-five hundred dollars in lieu of all other compensation and shall be allowed
fifteen hundred dollars to cover all expenses incurred in the performance of their
duties as county commissioners, and shall be required to devote all their time to
the duties of said office. Beginning with the terms of office commencing after the
1966 general election, and thereafter, the county commissioners shall receive a
salary of [sixty-five] NINETY-SIX hundred dollars per year. They shall receive
seven hundred and fifty dollars per year to cover expenses, provided that the
president of the board shall receive an additional two hundred and fifty dollars. In
addition, each commissioner shall be allowed expenses of ten cents per mile for
two round trips per week from the commissioner's home to the office of the county
commissioners in Elkton, Maryland. For all other mileage expenses, each
commissioner must submit a voucher to the county treasurer in order to be
reimbursed.

The treasurer shall also provide a fund of nine hundred dollars per year to cover
the expenses of the office for those activities that require travel outside of the state
on county business. The fund shall be available to any one or all of the
commissioners in equal proportions. Reimbursement out of this fund shall be
dependent on the presentation of vouchers by the commissioner(s) to evidence the
expense.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall not be
construed to extend or apply to the salary of the County Commissioners in office
on the effective date of this Act, but the provisions of this Act concerning the
salary of the county commissioners 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 348
(House Bill 1402)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 32 of the Code of
Public Local Laws of St. Mary's County (1965 Edition and 1972 Supplement,
being Article 19 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland), title "St.
Mary's County," subtitle "County Commissioners," to increase the
appropriation authorized to support hospital construction.

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That Section 32 of the Code of Public Local Laws of St. Mary's
County (1965 Edition and 1972 Supplement, being Article 19 of the Code of Public
Local Laws of Maryland), title "St. Mary's County," subtitle "County
Commissioners," be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to
read as follows: