HARRY HUGHES, Governor                               2171

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1974 Volume and 1980 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be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as follows: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 - Estates and Trusts

2-205.

(b) Each register is entitled to receive an annual
salary of not less than $6,000 and not more than $25,000
$37,500, to be determined in each instance by the Board of
Public Works, and the Board may raise this maximum salary to
[$30,000] $45,000. In determining the annual salary of the
register, the Board of Public Works shall be guided in the
exercise of its discretion by

(1)  The population of the county determined by
the last official United States census;

(2)  The dollar volume of total fees and taxes
collected and excess fees turned over to the State for each
of the preceding five years by the office of the register
for which the salary is being fixed; and

(3)  Other pertinent data which have relation to
the reasonableness of the salary in relation to the work
done and volume handled by the office.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1981.

Approved May 19, 1981.

CHAPTER 530

(Senate Bill 387)

AN ACT concerning

Program Open Space Funds - Reallocation

FOR the purpose of changing the purposes for which certain
funds, allocated under the Outdoor Recreation Land Loan
of 1969 for fiscal years 1970 through 1976 1978, may be
used and reallocating those funds for land acquisition
at McKee - Beshers Wildlife Management Area in
Montgomery County, at the Eastern Shore wildlife
management areas, and the bay access areas; resolving