ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR.

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(4) Such Justice is empowered to appoint a suitable
person to act as his clerk, who may be a woman, who shall
receive two-thirds from the County Commissioners of said
Washington County, and the other one-third from the
Mayor and Council of Hagerstown, a salary of seven hun-
dred and fifty dollars per annum, payable monthly, and
who shall attend at such times and places and perform such
duties as may be directed by said Justice, and who shall be
removable by said Justice at his discretion.

(5) The hearing, trial and determination of all cases
of dependent, neglected or delinquent children by said
Justice, sitting as the Magistrate for Juvenile Cases, shall
be had without regard to: technicalities of procedure or
rules of evidence.

(6) The Justice herein provided for, before qualifying

as such shall give bond to the State of Maryland in a pen-
alty of one thousand dollars, with a surety or sureties to
be approved by the Clerk of the Circuit Court for Wash-
ington County, conditioned that he will well and faithfully
perform and execute the duties and obligations of the office
of Justice of the Peace, and that he will account for and
pay over to the County Commissioners of Washington
County all fines, penalties, forfeitures and costs imposed by
him, and which he shall receive for or on account of crim-
inal offenses tried before him, under the provisions of the
Code of Public General Laws and Code of Public Local
Laws, and that he will account for and pay over to the Tax
Collector of Hagerstown all fines, penalties, forfeitures and
costs imposed by him and which he shall receive for or on
account of offenses against the ordinances of Hagerstown,
and that he will well and truly account for and pay over to.
the person, persons, corporation or corporations entitled to
the same, all money coming into his hands for or on, ac-
count of any business pertaining to or connected with his
office. And the bond of the said Justice of the Peace shall
be liable at the suit of the State of Maryland for the use
of the County Commissioners of Washington County and
of the Mayor and Council of Hagerstown, and of any per-
son, persons, corporation or corporations entitled under any
default of said condition

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That nothing in this
Act shall be construed to affect the compensation of the
present Magistrate for Juvenile Cases during his present
term of office ending in May, 1933.