The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1912-05-23
CHAPTER 445

| AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amend
lnent Sections Three and Seven OF Article
one of the Code OF Public Local Laws Of
MARYLAND, title "Allegany County" and
Article u. Garrett County subtitle
MINERS and Operators Co, operative Re
lief Fund as the same was enacted By
| Chapter 1873 Of the Acts Of the Genera
Assembly OF Maryland, passed in the year.
Section |. BE it enacted by tbe CeneraA
| Assembly Of Maryland, that sections Three
ana seven Of Article one of tie Code of Pub
| nc Laws of Maryland. title ''Allegany
| county, and Article Twelve. title Garrett
| County" subtitle Miners and OPERATOR
| Cooperative Relief Fund as the same wa,
enacted by Chapter l53 of the Acts OF the
| General Assembly of Maryland passed in the
year l"lO be and the same is hereby repealed
| ana fe-enacted so as 20 read as follows:
| inecIion g. There is hereby created for
| AileSany and Garrett COMMITTEES respectively,
Il luhu Tor the relief and sustenance of EN-
| pIoyees ana their dependents, when sucn
sad employees have sustained ininries or
ulSanlIitN IN the discharge OF their duty. and
| Tor the relief and Sustenance of the depend
ems OF 5uch employees when death has re
| suited from such injuries, said fund to be
! mace up or the proceeds of the tax herein
| after levied and the increments from the
lnNeSIneht thereof, as well as such dOna-
JlOnS ana legacies as may be made thereto.
In order to create and maintain said fund
a tax Is hereby levied and imposed upon
| each operator and employee as follows:
Upon each employee IN Auegany County q
tax or twenty SeVen cents and upon each
employe in Garrett County tax OF thirty
| cl1IlU cents IOI tdt'll month fraction a
month that he is employed by any operator
and upon each operator III Allegany County
a tax of twenty cents and in Garrett
County a tax of thirty-eight cents for each
month or fraction of month in respect Of
each employee paying the tax aforesaid ana
employed by said operator in Allegany ana
Garrett Counties.
such tax shall be due and payable monthly
to the Treasurer of Allegany and Garrett
Counties, respectively, in which the mine is
operated, and payable Oh or before the
twenty fifth GaV of tlp month next
ing the month for which such tax is paya-
Die, i'll order to secure the effeCtual payments
of such tax each operator is authorized and
required to deduct and retain from the
wages of each employee employed by him.
on his pay-rOllS in Allegany County the sum
OF twenty seven cents and in Garrett COun-
| ty the sum of thirty eight cents per month
or fraction of a month, if said employee b.
employed for less than a month, and on or
| before the fifteenth day OF the month next
succeeding the month for which such dedUC-
| tiCn is made shall make report of the mum
| Der OF employees 50 employed under oath to
| the Treasurer of Allegany or Garrett County
| where the particular mine is located. ana OIL
| or before the twenty fifth day of said sue
ceeding month shall pay over unto the
| Treasurer Of Alegany or Garrett County.
| the case may he, the total amount so de
| Quoted and retained from the wages of the
employees for the proceeding month. to
gether with like amount to be paid by the
operator. 1t shall be the duty Of the County
! Commissioners Of Anegany and Garrett
| Counties, respectively, to enforce. by apprO-
| of the tax hereby levied; and to all taxes III
| default there shah be added and cOllecteC
interest at the rate Of six per centum per
| annum from the date when due.
| section I. When the assessments imposed
and collected by the Treasurer of Allegaup
| County shall amount to thirty five thOuSant
! dollars surplus and IN Garrett County shall
| amount to fifteen thousand dollars surplus,
over and above the pending ana accrued
| claims on the same under this act, SucL
| Treasurer shall report the fact to the County
commissioners OF their respective cOuntt,
| whereupOn the said Board of County Com
missions are hereby empowered and direct
ed to remit temporarily the taxes hereby in
posed from month to month as long as and
no longer sue surplus shall exceed thirty
| five thousand dollars III Allegany Count.
and fifteen thousand dollars in Garrett
County, and when it shah be reduced to SalG
| sums or under, mentioned above. the said
| tax shall become again payable as provide
1t shall he the duty of the Treasurer of hi
| respective county to invest, under the orders
| of the County Commissioners, any surplus
| above the sum of two thousand dollars IL
| his hands, in such public bonds as said Com
mlssiOnerS may direct and to credit SuCN
| fund with the interest derived tAcrefrOn;
| and upon the retirement from Office or any
| disqualification to act OF such Treasurer tie
| entire fund, including such bonds and tn"
| books and papers pertaining to such funds.
| shall be delivered by such Treasurer to h,
successor in office, who shall receipt for the
same.
Section2 ,. BE it enacted. That all rights
| ana Liabilities incurred uLder the sections
! hereby repealed and re- enacted shall not be
impaired or effected, but shall continue and
remain in full force and effect ana any su.5
| begun or hereinafter to be brought upon
| such rights or liabilities shall not be abated
| by reason of this enactment
| section J. BE it enacted that this Act Shal.
| take effect from the date OF its passage.
| Approved April :, 1912.
hereby certify that the aforegoing IN
| true copy of an Act of the General Assembly
| Of Maryland, passed at the January Session,
| 1912. ALBERT J. ALMONEY.