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Ch. 115
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LAWS OF MARYLAND
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the provisions of this sentence that the State's Attorney
shall not engage in the private practice of law in any
manner whatsoever following January 1, 1975.
(q) In Prince George's County (1) the State's
Attorney's salary shall be equal to the salary of the
circuit judges of the several courts of the eight
judicial circuits. The State's Attorney, during his term
of office, shall not, except in connection with and in
the performance of his duties as such State's Attorney,
appear as counsel or represent any party professionally
before any court, [magistrate,] board, commission, or
agency of this State or any county or political
subdivision of this State. It is intended by the
provisions herein that the State's Attorney shall not
engage in the private practice of law in any matter
whatsoever.
(x) (1) In Worcester County, the State's Attorney's
salary is $25,000 per year. Beginning January 1, 1975,
the State's Attorney, during his term of office, may not,
except in connection with and in the performance of his
duties as such State's Attorney, appear as counsel or
represent any party professionally before any court,
[magistrate,] board, commission or agency of this State
or any county or political subdivision of this State or
of any other state. It is intended by the provisions of
this subsection that the State's Attorney may not engage
in the private practice of law in any manner whatsoever
from and after January 1, 1975.
SECTION 3. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That Section
231 of Article 23 — Miscellaneous Companies, of the
Annotated Code of Maryland (1973 Replacement Volume and
1976 Supplement) be and it is hereby repealed and
reenacted, with amendments, to read as follows:
Article 23 — Miscellaneous Companies
231.
Railroad companies shall be responsible for injuries
resulting in death or otherwise inflicted upon any stock,
as cattle, horses, sheep, hogs, and so forth, or by fire
occasioned by their engines or carriages, upon any of
their roads and branches thereof, unless the said
companies can prove [to the satisfaction of the justice
or other tribunal before which the suit may be tried]
that the injury complained of was committed without any
negligence on the part of the company or its agents;
provided, however, that no such presumption of negligence
on the part of railroad companies shall arise in any case
of fire occurring in or about waterfront or other
railroad terminals used for receiving, delivering or
transhipping freight, in the handling of which and the
ordinary conduct of business therein, persons not in the
employ or under the control of such railroad companies,
their servants and agents, are engaged in and about such
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