HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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SECTION 10. 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 March 26, 1979.

CHAPTER 20

(Senate Bill 1091)

AN ACT concerning

Washington County - Assistant State's Attorney

FOR the purpose of increasing the number of assistant
State's attorneys in Washington County; and making this
an emergency measure.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 10 - Attorneys at Law and Attorneys in Fact

Section 40(v)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1976 Replacement Volume and 1978 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be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as follows: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.

(v) In Washington County,

(1)  The State's Attorney's salary is $30,000.

(2)  The State's Attorney shall appoint a deputy
State's attorney, whose salary is to be determined by the
County Commissioners.

(3)  The State's Attorney shall appoint [one] TWO
assistant State's [attorney] ATTORNEYS, whose [salary is]
SALARIES ARE to be determined by the County Commissioners.

(4)  The deputy State's attorney and the
assistant State's [attorney] ATTORNEYS shall serve at the
pleasure of the State's Attorney. Under the direction of
the State's Attorney or in the absence of the State's