220                              LAWS OF MARYLAND                     [CH. 208

"Trial Magistrate's System," be and the same is hereby repealed and
re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

108.

(15) Montgomery County

(h) The Judges of the People's Court shall appoint a chief clerk
for the People's Court of Montgomery County, a chief deputy clerk
thereof who, when duly qualified as such, and in the absence of the
chief clerk, shall have the power and authority to act in the place and
stead of the chief clerk, and a clerk for each branch of said court:
namely, one clerk each for Rockville, Bethesda, and Silver Spring.
The appointment of said chief clerk shall be made by said judges at
such time as agreed upon by said judges and the County Council for
Montgomery County and shall be made every four years thereafter
and the appointment of said clerks for the branches of said court
shall be made at the expiration of the terms of office of the present
clerks of said court and every four years thereafter. Said chief clerk
shall keep all dockets of and supervise and manage the central
office of said court, which shall be located in Rockville and shall
supervise the administration of the branch offices of said court lo-
cated in Rockville. Bethesda, and Silver Spring. Each of said clerks
the several branches of said court shall manage their respective
offices under the supervision of said chief clerk. Notwithstanding
any other provision of law, the dockets and records of arrest and
convictions in traffic violations, and all other traffic records, shall
be kept by the chief clerk and several branch clerks in such form and
under such plan as may jointly be agreed upon by the chief judge
of the People's Court of Montgomery County and the Department
of Motor Vehicles. Each of said branch clerks shall make a daily
report of all traffic convictions and other disposition of cases to the
said chief clerk and said chief clerk shall make proper report at
periodic intervals of all traffic convictions and other disposition of
cases to the Department of Motor Vehicles in accordance with such
agreed plan, and, together therewith, said chief clerk shall make
remittance of all revenues due the State of Maryland from traffic
violation fines and costs to the Department of Motor Vehicles. The
department of finance of Montgomery County shall regularly audit
the accounts and records of the chief clerk and said branch clerks
and shall furnish the Department of Motor Vehicles and the State
Comptroller regularly a certificate attesting to the fact that an audit
verification of traffic violation fines and costs imposed in the People's
Court of Montgomery County has been made, and that all fines and
costs due the State of Maryland have been remitted to the Depart-
ment of Motor Vehicles. Each of said branch clerks shall have
custody of all monies paid into the court for any purpose and shall
deposit such monies promptly in an account in the name of the chief
clerk in Montgomery County; upon deposit in said account or ac-
counts, the chief clerk shall have custody of all such monies. Each
branch clerk shall report promptly to the chief clerk all fines, for-
feitures and costs and shall report any funds in his custody. The
chief clerk shall prepare, sign and deliver with appropriate remit-
tances to county and State officials such reports of fines, forfeitures
and costs as are required of trial magistrates by law. The chief
clerk and the several branch clerks shall perform such other duties
as shall be properly assigned to them by the judges of the People's