774                                          LAWS OF MARYLAND                        [Ch. 166

Section 17(a)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1973 Replacement Volume and 1973 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That Section 17(a) of Article 23A -
Corporations — Municipal, of the Annotated Code of
Maryland (1973 Replacement Volume and 1973 Supplement) be
and it is hereby repealed and re—enacted, with
amendments, to read as follows:

Article 23A — Corporations — Municipal
17.

(a) In any proposal to amend an existing charter
of a municipal corporation, the new matter, if any, to be
added to the charter shall be indicated by being
UNDERSCORED OR IN ITALICS OR typed or printed completely
in capital letters and all matter to be eliminated from
the existing charter, if any, shall be indicated in its
proper place by enclosing sack matter in double
parentheses or in boldface brackets, Where the subject
matter consists of an entirely new section or sections
the words of such new section or sections shall also be
UNDERSCORED OR IN ITALICS OR typed or printed completely
in capital letters or contain some marginal or other
notation to that effect. When the purpose of any
proposal is to repeal in entirety any section or sections
of the existing charter, the matter intended to be
repealed need not be written out in full and enclosed in
either double parentheses or boldface brackets.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1974.

Approved April 9, 1974.

CHAPTER 167
(Senate Bill 796)
AN ACT concerning

Howard County - Salary of Orphan's Court Judge

FOR the purpose of increasing the salary of the judge of
the Orphan's Court in Howard County and providing