BLAIR LEE III, Acting Governor                         1347

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
may not be construed to extend or apply to the salary of the
Orphans' Court judges in office on the effective date of
this Act, but the provisions of this Act concerning the
salary of the Orphans' Court judges 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, 1978.

Approved May 2, 1978.

CHAPTER 289

(Senate Bill 1140)

AN ACT concerning

Charles County State's Attorney

FOP the purpose of altering the salary of the Charles County
State's Attorney; and specifying that the change shall
not affect the incumbent.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 10 - Attorneys at Law and Attorneys in Fact

Section 40 (i) (1)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1976 Replacement Volume and 1977 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That section(s) of the Annotated Code of Maryland
be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as follows:

Article 10 - Attorneys at Law and Attorneys in Fact

40.

(i) (1) In Charles County, the State's Attorney's

salary is [$2 5,000] $37,500 $28,000 a year; and he shall
serve full time. He shall appoint a deputy State's attorney
who shall serve full time and whose salary shall be at such
compensation, not exceeding $22,500 a year, as the County
Commissioners may deem proper. In addition to the deputy
State's attorney, the State's Attorney may appoint part—time
assistant State's attorneys in the number approved by the
senior resident circuit court judge. The salaries of these
attorneys shall be a sum not exceeding $18,000 a year as the
County Commissioners may deem proper.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act