168 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 120

actively engaged in the practice of law for at least five
years, who shall receive a salary of fifteen hundred dollars
per annum, payable quarterly, and whose jurisdiction, du-
ties 'and powers shall be the same as those conferred upon
and required of the other Magistrates assigned to the
Traffic Court as aforesaid, and who shall be designated by the
Governor to sit in said court in the absence by illness or other-
wise of the other Magistrates appointed to sit regularly at
the Traffic Court, and at other times when it may, in the
opinion of the Governor, become necessary for such addi-
tional Magistrate to sit as a member of the said Traffic Court;
and such justice so designated shall not be required to give
bond in a sum greater than that required of other Justices of
the Peace by Section 624, of Article 4 of the Code of Public
Local Laws of Maryland.

In the event that any two of said Magistrates are unable
to preside at any time, the Police Commissioner of Baltimore
City shall have power to provide a substitute in the same
manner and at the same rate of compensation as substitutes
may now be provided for Police Justices regularly assigned
to Station Houses in Baltimore City.

All necessary expenses for the operation of the Traffic Court,
including the salaries of the Magistrates and clerks herein pro-
vided for, shall be paid out of monies in the hands of Commis-
sioner of Motor Vehicles realized and collected from fines and
costs imposed by the Traffic Court, and should said funds be
insufficient in any one year to pay said expenses, then the deficit
shall be paid out of other funds in the hands of the Commis-
sioner of Motor Vehicles realized and collected by him from
other sources.

Whenever the owner or operator of a motor vehicle is ac-
cused of a violation of any provision of the automobile laws
of the State, or of any local ordinance, rule or regulation of
any municipality or county of this State, and a warrant, sum-
mons or notice is served upon him to appear for trial before
the Traffic Court, or any Justice of the Peace having juris-
diction to hear the case, he shall be notified in said warrant,
summons or notice of the nature and character of the charge
against him, and the day and hour of such, trial shall be fixed
at such time, so far as may be practicable, as shall cause the
least inconvenience to such person and the witnesses in the
case.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect on July 1st, 1927.

Approved March 25, 1927.